CVE-2021-40854

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in anydesk anydesk. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AnyDesk before 6.2.6 and 6.3.x before 6.3.3 allows a local user to obtain administrator privileges by using the Open Chat Log feature to launch a privileged Notepad process that can launch other applications.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2021-10-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

anydesk:anydesk

References

https://anydesk.com/cve/2021-40854/
https://anydesk.com/cve/2021-40854/

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