Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-50227 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-50227 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-50227?
- Informational severity, published 23 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Acer NitroSense up to and including 5.2.62.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-50227?
- 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-2026-50227 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-50227?
- Check whether you run Acer NitroSense 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
An MQTT broker in NitroSense listens on localhost over WebSocket without requiring authentication, allowing unauthenticated local attackers to connect and invoke exposed DDSC RPC functions including child_process.execSync(). This results in arbitrary code execution in the NitroSense application context. The vulnerability affects versions up to and including 5.2.62.
Affected products
- Acer NitroSense up to and including 5.2.62
Timeline
- 2026-09-23: disclosed