🛡️ CVE-2026-16802 — powershell-universal

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-312 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Cleartext storage of sensitive information in the variables feature in Devolutions PowerShell Universal 2026.2.2 and earlier allows a local actor with file system access to read secret values via secret variables stored in cleartext on disk when no vault is selected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16802 is classified as CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. Sensitive values are written to storage unencrypted and readable by anyone with access to it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16802 is recorded against 1 package.

  • powershell-universal (fixed in 2026.2.3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 July 2026 and last revised on 29 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

devolutions.net

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-312
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
powershell-universal — 2026.2.3.0

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