CVE-2025-8614: high-severity vulnerability in NoMachine
NoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 82% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
NoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of NoMachine. 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 configuration of OpenSSL. The product loads an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-26766.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
NoMachine · NoMachineRelated CVEs — NoMachine
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-18264HIGHNoMachine getstat Command Injection Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityEPSS 1.2%CVE-2024-7253HIGHNoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-5055HIGHNoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-53694HIGHPotential local privileges escalation through argument injection in the nxchmod.sh scriptEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-5054HIGHNoMachine External Control of File Path Local Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-5053HIGHNoMachine External Control of File Path Arbitrary File Deletion VulnerabilityEPSS 0.1%