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Change History

An Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs vulnerability in Unity Parsec on Windows hosts leads to a potential Elevation of Privilege. This issue affects Parsec through v2026-05-04.0. The patched version is Parsec for Windows version 150-104a. A user can generate a situation where there is an instance of parsecd.exe running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM with a user-controlled value of the AppData environment variable.

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

CWE-648

https://github.com/tomadimitrie/CVE-2026-54424

https://parsec.app/

https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/50612943726612-CVE-2026-54424

https://www.tomadimitrie.dev/blog/CVE-2026-54424

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