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title: "CVE-2026-112161: MobaXterm Personal Edition - Code Injection"
description: "MobaXterm Personal Edition 26.4 GA contains a code injection vulnerability caused by lack of integrity verification when extracting CygUtils64.plugin, letting local attackers with write permissions execute code with victim's permissions, exploit requires write access to the plugin file."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-112161/
---

# CVE-2026-112161 MobaXterm Personal Edition - Code Injection

MobaXterm Personal Edition 26.4 GA contains a code injection vulnerability caused by lack of integrity verification when extracting CygUtils64.plugin, letting local attackers with write permissions execute code with victim's permissions, exploit requires write access to the plugin file.

CVSS base score 8.5 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.07% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112161)

## Details

Type

Code Injection

Impact

Remote Code Execution

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Published

19 October 2026

Updated

20 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-345](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/345.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with integrity verification for plugin extraction.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112161](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112161)
- [https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/lack-integrity-checks-mobateks-mobaxterm](https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/lack-integrity-checks-mobateks-mobaxterm)

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- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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