Local Privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges (Citrix Secure Access Client for Windows)

CVE-2026-53565
HIGH 8.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Citrix
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Citrix Secure Access Client for Windows, Citrix Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows. This issue affects Secure Access Client for Windows: before 26.6.1.20; Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows: before 26. 5.1.7.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCitrix
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · secure@citrix.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Citrix · Secure Access Client for Windowsaffected 0 < 26.6.1.20
Citrix · Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windowsaffected 0 < 26. 5.1.7

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD