CVE-2026-55761

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. In versions 2.39.0 through 2.39.3 and 2.40.0 until 2.43.0, unauthenticated restore and administrator initialization endpoints (/api/restore and /api/users/admin/init) remain accessible during the five-minute setup window for uninitialized instances, allowing a network attacker to restore a crafted backup or create the first administrator account and gain full administrative access. This issue is fixed in versions 2.39.4 and 2.43.0.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

History

10 Jul 2026, 17:48

Type Values Removed Values Added
CWE NVD-CWE-noinfo
First Time Portainer portainer
Portainer
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/commit/49f19107cf9a3540cbe406c9eb7f24390e1af02b - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/commit/49f19107cf9a3540cbe406c9eb7f24390e1af02b - Patch
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/commit/d2b56efcb4e43c4168bb6688eee9f6bf22867312 - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/commit/d2b56efcb4e43c4168bb6688eee9f6bf22867312 - Patch
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/2770 - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/2770 - Issue Tracking
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.39.4 - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.39.4 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.43.0 - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.43.0 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-x626-fcwx-f5pc - () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-x626-fcwx-f5pc - Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.9

08 Jul 2026, 16:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-07-08 16:16

Updated : 2026-07-10 17:48


NVD link : CVE-2026-55761

Mitre link : CVE-2026-55761

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-55761


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Products Affected

portainer

  • portainer
CWE
CWE-287

Improper Authentication

NVD-CWE-noinfo