CVE-2026-76159

unknown
Published 2026-09-15 · Modified 2026-09-15
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
7.0
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
VIR risk

Description

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in the configuration loader of Duplicati for Windows versions before v2.4.0.0 allows a local low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM via an attacker-controlled preload.json file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

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-732

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

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