CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-83597

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

Netdata Windows Agent from version 2.0.0 until 2.10.4 launches powershell.exe and wevtutil.exe as elevated interactive processes in the initiating user's desktop session during MSI repair. A low-privileged local user who triggers repair can interact with or hijack those visible process windows to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.

Risk Assessment

A low-privileged local user can escalate privileges to SYSTEM, leading to full compromise of the Windows system.

Recommendation

Update Netdata Windows Agent to version 2.10.4 or later.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Netdata is an open source observability tool. From version 2.0.0 until 2.10.4, Netdata Windows Agent MSI repair launches powershell.exe and wevtutil.exe as elevated interactive processes in the initiating user's desktop session. A low-privileged local user who triggers repair can interact with or hijack those visible process windows to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges. This issue is fixed in stable version 2.10.4.

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