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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-41477

Deskflow: Local privilege escalation via unauthenticated IPC

Description

Deskflow is a keyboard and mouse sharing app. In 1.20.0, 1.26.0.134, and earlier, Deskflow daemon runs as SYSTEM and exposes an IPC named pipe with WorldAccessOption enabled. The daemon processes privileged commands without authentication, allowing any local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM. Affects both stable v1.20.0 + and Continuous v1.26.0.134 prerelease.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

deskflow deskflow

  • <= 1.26.0.134affected
  • <= 1.20.0affected

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