CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-15684

HighCVSS 7.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Glarysoft Glary Utilities allows local privilege escalation by abusing the Disk Clean functionality. An attacker with low privileges can create a junction to delete arbitrary files in the SYSTEM context.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of a local attacker gaining SYSTEM privileges and executing arbitrary code, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Update Glary Utilities to the latest version immediately. Restrict local logon to trusted users only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Glarysoft Glary Utilities Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Glarysoft Glary Utilities. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Disk Clean functionality. By creating a junction, an attacker can abuse the service to delete arbitrary files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-27004.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS