Vulnerability · Published Jul 16, 2026 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2026-36425
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
An issue in OPSWAT AppRemover Driver (ardrv.sys) v2017.10.02.1551 and earlier in IOCTL handler 0x2420031. Any local user can open the device and send process termination requests without privilege validation.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2248347b2ec49f07268a44816ebb6265677093ec277f825de1a76700ab25e3bc
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/07c5209bf83065fe760f4fee4ed2308b0c523671f68ca73a3854c2c8c28c0541
- https://www.opswat.com/products/oesis-framework/application-removal
- https://github.com/redteamfortress/CVE-2026-36425