THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-18485 (HIGH 7.8) — There is a local privilege escalation vulnerability recently discovered in the NI-PAL kernel driver. This may allow a local, authenticated user to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects NI-PAL 26.3.1 and prior versions running on Microsoft Wi
[NVD] CVE-2026-18485 (HIGH 7.8) — There is a local privilege escalation vulnerability recently discovered in the NI-PAL kernel driver. This may allow a local, authenticated user to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects NI-PAL 26.3.1 and prior versions running on Microsoft Wi
CVE-2026-18485 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-05T19:17:29.170
There is a local privilege escalation vulnerability recently discovered in the NI-PAL kernel driver. This may allow a local, authenticated user to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects NI-PAL 26.3.1 and prior versions running on Microsoft Windows.
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-18485cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18485