CVE-2026-54001highCWE-122

CVE-2026-54001: high-severity vulnerability in osquery

osquery: Heap buffer overflow via `authenticode` table (Windows)

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

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osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework. Prior to 5.23.1, on Windows, a local unprivileged attacker can cause a heap buffer out-of-bounds write if there is a query of the authenticode table targeting a maliciously crafted binary, due to publisher information parsing in getOriginalProgramName. If exploited successfully, this could allow a potential local privilege escalation from standard user to SYSTEM. This issue is fixed in version 5.23.1.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
osquery · osquery
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