Quanos SCHEMA ST4 on-premises contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Client Update Service. The update service runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and exposes a .NET Remoting interface over a named pipe without sufficient access controls or authorization. A local authenticated low-privileged user can connect to the interface and invoke privileged update methods such as Update(). This allows arbitrary file write and delete operations with SYSTEM privileges and can be used to achieve local privilege escalation.

Project Subscriptions

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

The vendor does not provide a patch. The vendor recommends disabling the affected Client Update Service. Updating the client is then only possible manually with a privileged user account. Quanos confirms that exploitation requires local host access with an authenticated user session. In properly managed environments following the Least Privilege principle, the attack surface is significantly reduced. Quanos Cloud/SaaS deployments are not affected. Quanos considers the migration to the Cloud/SaaS architecture the strategic long-term solution.


Workaround

Disable the Client Update Service until a fix is provided. Restrict local interactive access to systems running SCHEMA ST4 on-premises. Apply the principle of least privilege to local user accounts and prevent untrusted users from obtaining local sessions on affected hosts. Ensure that only trusted administrators can perform client updates manually.

References
History

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Quanos SCHEMA ST4 on-premises contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Client Update Service. The update service runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and exposes a .NET Remoting interface over a named pipe without sufficient access controls or authorization. A local authenticated low-privileged user can connect to the interface and invoke privileged update methods such as Update(). This allows arbitrary file write and delete operations with SYSTEM privileges and can be used to achieve local privilege escalation.
Title Missing authorization in Quanos SCHEMA ST4 Client Update Service allows arbitrary file overwrite as SYSTEM
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SEC-VLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-17T11:50:47.666Z

Reserved: 2026-06-10T09:08:26.174Z

Link: CVE-2026-11858

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses