Comodo Dragon Browser versions up to 52.15.25.663 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the DragonUpdater service due to an unquoted service path running with SYSTEM privileges. A local attacker can insert a malicious executable in the service path and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges upon service restart or system reboot.
CVE-2016-20090
Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(high)
- EPSS
- 2.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 19, 2026
Last Modified
June 22, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jun 22, 2026Comodo Dragon Browser 52.15.25.663 Privilege Escalation via Unquoted Service Path | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/comodo-dragon-browser-privilege-escalation-via-unquoted-service-pathVendor Advisories for CVE-2016-20090(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 32× in last 7d / 85× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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- 2026-06-22 21:36 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 8.5
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