CVE-2026-13162: Hitachi Energy CoreTec 5 vulnerability
Hitachi Energy · CoreTec 5
Affected: Hitachi Energy CoreTec 5 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 8% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
An OS command vulnerability exists in CoreTec product that allows authenticated users with certain roles to execute arbitrary system commands with full control over the device. The vulnerability exists in the configuration daemon's time synchronization handler, which is responsible for setting the system time-zone. When processing time-zone configuration updates, the daemon constructs a shell command by concatenating user-supplied input without any sanitization or validation.
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Hitachi Energy · CoreTec 5from 3.0.0 up to and including 5.0.0
- Hitachi Energy · CoreTec 4from 3.0.0 up to and including 3.4.0
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Hitachi Energy
- Published
- October 2026
CoverageNo articles yet
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