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title: "CVE-2026-111560: Barracuda Appliance - Command Injection"
description: "Barracuda appliance products contain a command injection caused by improper neutralization of shell metacharacters in the timezone configuration field, letting authenticated administrators execute OS commands with root privileges, exploit requires administrator authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-111560/
---

# CVE-2026-111560 Barracuda Appliance - Command Injection

Barracuda appliance products contain a command injection caused by improper neutralization of shell metacharacters in the timezone configuration field, letting authenticated administrators execute OS commands with root privileges, exploit requires administrator authentication.

CVSS base score 8.6 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111560)

## Details

Type

Command Injection

Impact

Remote Code Execution

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Published

2 November 2026

Updated

3 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-78](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with the fix applied.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111560](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111560)
- [https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2026/MNDT-2026-0041.md](https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2026/MNDT-2026-0041.md)
- [https://trust.barracuda.com/security/pre-authentication-authorization-bypass-command-injection](https://trust.barracuda.com/security/pre-authentication-authorization-bypass-command-injection)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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