NoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description

NoMachine Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of NoMachine. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the configuration of OpenSSL. The product loads an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-26766.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-427 and its CVEs

Affected products

• NoMachine · NoMachine

  • affected Nomachine agent 8.16.1

References (2)

• ZDI-25-835 (opens in a new tab)x_research-advisory
• vendor-provided URL (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-8614](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-8614.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-8614)

Record last updated 2 Sept 2025, 20:35 UTC.