CVE record · CVE-2026-92254

WatchDog Antivirus kernel driver arbitrary file deletion via unauthenticated IOCTL

CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: watchdog) at 20 Sept 2026, 12:02 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Watchdog Anti-Virus
  • affected 1.8.640 to before 1.8.804 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-92254
CNA
watchdog
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20 · CWE-306
Published
20 Sept 2026
Updated
21 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.9 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/RE:L/U:Amber CNA (watchdog)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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