Vulnerability · Published May 25, 2026 · Assigned by Acer
CVE-2026-9490Acer Care Center creates a Named Pipe with a weak Security Descriptor
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in Care Center from Acer. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
A security vulnerability has been identified in Acer Care Center where the ACCSvc service creates a Named Pipe with a weak Security Descriptor. This vulnerability allows an authenticated local user to connect and send a specially crafted message (message type 0x03) to the pipe, causing the service to crash with exit code 1067 (ERROR_PROCESS_ABORTED). To mitigate this potential local service disruption, Acer requires users to update the software to the latest version.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Acer | Care Center | 4.0 – through 4.00.3058 |
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/RE:M