CVE-2026-44099 — Local Privilege Escalation via pppd password injection

CVE-2026-44099

Local Privilege Escalation via pppd password injection PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the system configuration allows a low-privileged local user to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full system compromise.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Phoenix Contact / CHARX SEC-3150	affected 1.0.0 before 1.9.1
Phoenix Contact / CHARX SEC-3100	affected 1.0.0 before 1.9.1
Phoenix Contact / CHARX SEC-3050	affected 1.0.0 before 1.9.1
Phoenix Contact / CHARX SEC-3000	affected 1.0.0 before 1.9.1

CWE

CWE-78

References

https://www.certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2026-008/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.