CVE-2026-14551

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-22. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.8
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: —CVSS: 8.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The servereye client (also known as sensorhub, technically ClientAgentContainerService) versions 20.15 and earlier are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation. The high-privileged service SE3Recovery (EmergencyRecoveryService.exe), running as SYSTEM, periodically monitors the directory %ProgramData%\ServerEye3\update\ for a trigger file named "update_available". Due to insufficient access restrictions on this directory, a local standard user can create the trigger file and provide a path to a directory containing malicious JSON instructions. The service subsequently executes the utility UpdaterAction.exe with SYSTEM privileges, which parses the instructions and performs an unvalidated file copy from a user-controlled source to a protected system destination (e.g., overwriting a service binary). This leads to full system compromise as the service automatically restarts the overwritten binary with SYSTEM privileges.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8(high)
EPSS
—
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 22, 2026

Last Modified

July 22, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Security-Bulletin - servereye

https://www.servereye.de/security-bulletins/2026-001/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-14551(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 7× 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.

  1. 2026-07-22 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-22 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-22 12:53 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-07-22 12:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-22 11:38 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-07-22 10:07 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-07-22 10:07 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-14551?
CVE-2026-14551 is a high vulnerability published on July 22, 2026. The servereye client (also known as sensorhub, technically ClientAgentContainerService) versions 20.15 and earlier are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation. The high-privileged service SE3Recovery (EmergencyRecoveryService.exe), running as SYSTEM, periodically monitors the directory…
When was CVE-2026-14551 disclosed?
CVE-2026-14551 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-14551?
CVE-2026-14551 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-14551?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-14551, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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