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CVE-2026-9489: NitroSense V3: Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-25 · updated 2026-07-23
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
NitroSense 3.x before 3.01.3052 contains Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability.The program exposes a Windows Named Pipe that uses a custom protocol to invoke internal functions. However, this Named Pipe is misconfigured, allowing any authenticated local user to execute arbitrary code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges and to delete arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges. By leveraging this, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.
Affected products
- Acer NitrorSense V3: from 3.01.3001 through 3.01.3052
References
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