GCVE-1-2026-20015 (CVE-2026-53694)

Vulnerability from gna-1 – Published: 2026-06-10 14:56 – Updated: 2026-06-10 14:57
VLAI
Title
Potential local privileges escalation through argument injection in the nxchmod.sh script
Summary
Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') vulnerability in Nomachine allows Argument Injection.This issue affects Nomachine: before 9.5.7, before 8.23.2.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NoMachine NoMachine Affected: 0 , < 9.5.7 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 8.23.2 (semver)
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Credits
Vonmetz Tobias
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