CVE-2026-55978

high

Published 2026-08-06 · Modified 2026-08-06

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CVSS v3

8.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.4

Description

An improper access control vulnerability in CatchPulse could allow a non-administrative local attacker to connect to an unrestricted kernel filter communication port and bypass CatchPulse's security policy enforcement.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.