CVE-2026-40187: Egroupware

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In egroupware version 26.0 and earlier, an authenticated administrator can achieve OS-level Remote Code Execution (RCE) by uploading a malicious eTemplate XML file (`.xet`) to the VFS `/etemplates` mount. The `Widget::expand_name()` method passes template widget attribute values directly into a PHP `eval()` call with only double-quote escaping applied - **backtick characters are not escaped**. In PHP, backticks inside a double-quoted `eval()` string execute shell commands. This allows an admin-level user to escalate from web application access to arbitrary OS command execution on the server.

Affected products

• Egroupware Egroupware: up to and including 26.0

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-07-23.