🛡️ CVE-2026-55979

🟡 CVSS 5.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
5.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An improper access control check in CatchPulse's named pipe communication interface could allow an attacker to invoke CatchPulse functions. This is limited to operations that enforce more restrictive security policies.

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 low, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-55979 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-55979 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.csa.gov.sg
www.secureage.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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