CVE-2026-18485

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.

Scoring

Severity

HIGH

CVSS base score

8.5

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS probability

0.11%

CWE

CWE-1285

Published

2026-08-05

Last modified

2026-08-06

Affected products

• NI NI-PAL

Weakness type

• CWE-1285

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