CVE-2026-53694
Potential local privileges escalation through argument injection in the nxchmod.sh script
- Published
- Jun 10, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 7, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- CIRCL
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 3.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1- CVE-2026-53694-NoMachine-LPEExploit
Proof-of-concept exploit and write-up for CVE-2026-53694, a local privilege escalation in NoMachine for Linux via argument injection in nxchmod.sh, enabling root access through symlink manipulation.
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