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🛡️ CVE-2026-12161 — remote-desktop-manager

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper input validation in the SSH Elevate Shell feature allows an authenticated user

with permission to create or modify a shared SSH entry to execute

arbitrary commands on a remote SSH host using stored elevation

credentials via a crafted alternate username and user interaction with

the Elevate Shell action.

This affects  : 

  • Remote Desktop Manager 2026.2.5.0 through 2026.2.7.0
  • Remote Desktop Manager 2026.1.23.0 and earlier

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-12161 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2026-12161 is recorded against 1 package.

  • remote-desktop-manager (fixed in 2026.2.8.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 June 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

devolutions.net

Other advisories for this package

remote-desktop-manager has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
remote-desktop-manager — 2026.2.8.0

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