CVE ID Assignment Request – NoMachine Vulnerability

Disclosure Status

disclosed

August 19, 2026

August 19, 2026

Description

Finding

It was reported to us by a researcher Vonmetz Tobias

Reproducibility

Potential local privileges escalation through argument injection in the nxchmod.sh script

Impact

This is potential local privileges, it impacts NoMachine users with our app installed on Linux machines. However it only affects some of the configurations.

Patches

It was patched in NoMachine in versions 9.5.7 and 8.23.2

Workarounds

We have not tested any workaround, however patches are already available

References

Release notices for NoMachine 9.5.7 (https://kb.nomachine.com/SU05X00274) Release notices for NoMachine 8.23.2 (https://kb.nomachine.com/SU05X00275)

Details

CVE-2026-53694

NoMachine:NoMachine

Vonmetz Tobias