CVE-2026-41477

Deskflow: Local privilege escalation via unauthenticated IPC

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Apr 24, 2026
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Apr 20, 2026

Description

Deskflow is a keyboard and mouse sharing app. In 1.20.0, 1.26.0.134, and earlier, Deskflow daemon runs as SYSTEM and exposes an IPC named pipe with WorldAccessOption enabled. The daemon processes privileged commands without authentication, allowing any local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM. Affects both stable v1.20.0 + and Continuous v1.26.0.134 prerelease.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
deskflowdeskflow	<= 1.26.0.134Affected <= 1.20.0Affected

References

https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/security/advisories/GHSA-6rx5-g478-775c

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