CVE-2026-41477 PUBLISHED

Deskflow: Local privilege escalation via unauthenticated IPC

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

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

Attack Vector	Local	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	deskflow
Product	deskflow
Versions	Version <= 1.26.0.134 is affected Version <= 1.20.0 is affected

References

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

Problem Types

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