High 7.0Published Sep 22, 2026

CVE-2026-83597Netdata: Local Privilege Escalation in Netdata Windows Agent installer via MSI Repair Execution

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:10 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 7.0 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 22, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

netdata netdata netdata:netdata (from the name)	from 2.0.0, < 2.10.4	CNA record

References

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/security/advisories/GHSA-jmv4-pq25-crvvx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/22751x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/commit/d762782697623a98b51b4e41f7fe2d12404f0662x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v2.10.4x-refsource-misc

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