{"id":"CVE-2026-83597","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-83597","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:15:08.308Z","title":"A low-privileged local user who triggers repair can interact with or hijack those visible process windows to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.","description":"Netdata is an open source observability tool. From version 2.0.0 until 2.10.4, Netdata Windows Agent MSI repair launches powershell.exe and wevtutil.exe as elevated interactive processes in the initiating user's desktop session. A low-privileged local user who triggers repair can interact with or hijack those visible process windows to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges. This issue is fixed in stable version 2.10.4.","published":"2026-09-22T18:17:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-23T18:28:25.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00139,"percentile":0.03252,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-23","score":0.00139,"percentile":0.03653}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-22T18:17:22.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.0","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-09-22T18:17:22.180Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.0)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/netdata/netdata/commit/d762782697623a98b51b4e41f7fe2d12404f0662","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/22751","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v2.10.4","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/netdata/netdata/security/advisories/GHSA-jmv4-pq25-crvv","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/netdata/netdata/security/advisories/GHSA-jmv4-pq25-crvv","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-83597","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}