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CWE-782: related vulnerabilities

CVEs classified under CWE-782. Understanding the weakness class helps prioritize systemic fixes over one-off patches.

1 published vulnerability

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  • CVE-2026-8501HIGH 7.8

    CVE-2026-8501 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in PC Tools Internet Security's kernel driver (PCTCore64.sys). The driver fails to properly restrict access to its device interface, allowing any user-mode process to issue commands that should be reserved for system-level operations. An attacker with local access can send specially crafted requests to the driver to gain elevated privileges and execute sensitive operations on the compromised system.