Executive Summary

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) identified a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-92209) in NoMachine's Redis component. The flaw allows an attacker who can execute low‑privileged code to bypass authentication and gain higher privileges on affected installations. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: Zero Day Initiative - Published Date: 2026-09-16T05:00:00+00:00 - Category: cves

Original Description: This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of NoMachine. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-92209.

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