Acer PredatorSense up to 3.00.3196 path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Acer PredatorSense up to 3.00.3196. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-8069. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Acer PredatorSense up to 3.00.3196. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PredatorSense version 3.00.3136 to 3.00.3196 contain Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability.The program exposes a Windows Named Pipe that uses a custom protocol to invoke internal functions. However, this Named Pipe is misconfigured, allowing any authenticated local user to execute arbitrary code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges and to delete arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges. By leveraging this, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.

The weakness was released by Artem Domarev. The advisory is shared at community.acer.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-8069 since 05/07/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Acer

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• PredatorSense

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• 3.00.3196

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