CVE-2026-36365
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
An issue in Lymphatus caesium-image-compressor All versions up to and including commit 02da2c6 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the shutdownMachine and putMachineToSleep functions in PostCompressionActions.cpp
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor
- https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor/blob/main/src/utils/PostCompressionActions.cpp
- https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor/pull/376
- https://github.com/mertsatilmaz/vulnerability-research/blob/main/advisories/CVE-2026-36365.md
CWEs
CWE-77 CWE-94
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.