🛡️ CVE-2026-38979

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1021 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ajenti through v2.2.13 has a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing login and administrative UI. In ajenti-core/aj/http.py, the core HTTP response path initializes an empty header list, forwards handler-added headers verbatim, and finalizes responses through WSGI start_response() without adding anti-framing protections such as X-Frame-Options or a Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors restriction.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-38979 is classified as CWE-1021: Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers. The interface can be framed or overlaid by another site, so clicks can be redirected without the user noticing.

Affected software

CVE-2026-38979 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 6 July 2026 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-1021
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-06
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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