Quick answers
- Is CVE-2016-20094 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2016-20094 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2016-20094?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 19 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- AnyDesk 2.5.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2016-20094?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2016-20094 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2016-20094?
- Check whether you run AnyDesk at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
AnyDesk 2.5.0 is vulnerable to an unquoted service path (CWE-428) within its Windows service installation. The service 'anydesk' points to a binary path (C:\Program Files\AnyDesk\AnyDesk.exe) that lacks quotation marks, leading Windows to potentially execute files like 'C:\Program.exe' if they exist. A local attacker with low privileges can exploit this by placing a malicious executable in the search path. Upon a system reboot or service restart, the malicious file is executed with SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability requires local file system access to plant the executable but requires no user interaction to trigger once the file is in place.
Affected products
- AnyDesk AnyDesk 2.5.0
Timeline
- 2016-09-22: disclosed: Initial exploit published on Exploit-DB
- 2026-06-19: advisory: CVE record published/updated in NVD dataset