CVE-2026-15682 AnyDesk Support Information Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

What is CVE-2026-15682?

CVE-2026-15682 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in AnyDesk, published on 13 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

AnyDesk Support Information Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of AnyDesk. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the Send Support Information feature. By creating a junction, an attacker can abuse the service to create arbitrary files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition on the system. Was ZDI-CAN-26645.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-15682?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Anydesk Anydesk.

How do I fix CVE-2026-15682?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-15682 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2026-15682 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-15682 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in AnyDesk

• CVE-2025-27918 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13160 Other in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14397 AnyDesk before 3.6.1 on Windows has a DLL injection vulnerability. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-44426 File upload in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-20094 AnyDesk 2.5.0 Unquoted Service Path Elevation of Privilege High 8.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f5mf-mx82-hm83.