CVE-2026-54424

Published: Jul 4, 2026Modified: Jul 6, 2026

8.4

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.5 / Impact: 5.9

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

Description

An Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs vulnerability in Unity Parsec on Windows hosts leads to a potential Elevation of Privilege. This issue affects Parsec through v2026-05-04.0. The patched version is Parsec for Windows version 150-104a. A user can generate a situation where there is an instance of parsecd.exe running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM with a user-controlled value of the AppData environment variable.

Related CWEs

CWE-648

Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

The product does not conform to the API requirements for a function call that requires extra privileges. This could allow attackers to gain privileges by causing the function to be called incorrectly.

References (4)

https://github.com/tomadimitrie/CVE-2026-54424

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://parsec.app/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/50612943726612-CVE-2026-54424

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.tomadimitrie.dev/blog/CVE-2026-54424

Source: cve@mitre.org

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