System Monitoring
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Local privilege escalation in Acer System Monitoring, the privileged service bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator gaming laptops, allows an authenticated local user to interact with the service and perform unauthorized registry modifications that can elevate privileges to SYSTEM. Exploitation requires an existing low-privileged foothold on the machine (PR:L) with no user interaction, and is limited to Acer gaming hardware running the vulnerable OEM software; there is no remote attack path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no CISA KEV listing, so this represents a post-compromise escalation primitive rather than an actively exploited threat.
Local privilege escalation in Acer System Monitoring, a component bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator laptops, allows an authenticated local user to abuse a privileged Named Pipe service for unauthorized registry operations. Exploitation requires local access and the vulnerable service running, and the vendor rates the exploit as Unproven with no public exploit code identified at time of analysis. Successful abuse could elevate privileges or compromise the host, but realistic risk is confined to machines with these Acer gaming utilities deployed and an attacker already holding a low-privilege foothold.
Local authentication bypass in the Acer System Monitoring component bundled with NitroSense (Nitro laptops) and PredatorSense (Predator laptops) lets any user who already holds a session or code execution on the machine open a WebSocket connection to the monitoring service without supplying credentials, because the handshake never performs an authentication check (CWE-306). Exploitation is constrained to the local attack vector (AV:L) and requires the component to be installed and running; it is not remotely reachable, the vendor's own description hedges with 'under certain circumstances', and the exploit is unproven (E:U). Impact is confined to Low confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects on service functionality; no public exploit code and no confirmed active exploitation were identified at time of analysis, making this a low-priority issue by every available signal.
Acer System Monitoring, the WebSocket-enabled helper bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator laptops, is configured to bind its listener to all network interfaces rather than to localhost, so any host that can reach the port on the same network segment can talk to the service without authentication or user interaction. The consequences are limited - the assessed impact is confined to low-level confidentiality, integrity and availability effects (minor telemetry exposure or restricted interaction with the service) - and the issue is compounded only mildly by the fact that the utility must actually be installed and running on a reachable machine. This is a low-priority finding: no public exploit code exists, no confirmed active exploitation has been reported, and the vendor vector (CVSS 4.0 score 2.7) plus an independent assessment (CVSS 3.1 AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) agree that practical exposure is realistically limited to an attacker on the same LAN, hotel or office Wi-Fi.
Local attackers can extract a hard-coded AES encryption key from the Acer System Monitoring component, which is bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator Windows gaming laptops. Exploitation requires local access to read the software binaries and recover the key, after which the attacker may access protected information or perform unauthorized actions, though impact is limited to low confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, and the issue is rated low priority.
Local privilege escalation in Acer System Monitoring, the privileged service bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator gaming laptops, allows an authenticated local user to interact with the service and perform unauthorized registry modifications that can elevate privileges to SYSTEM. Exploitation requires an existing low-privileged foothold on the machine (PR:L) with no user interaction, and is limited to Acer gaming hardware running the vulnerable OEM software; there is no remote attack path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no CISA KEV listing, so this represents a post-compromise escalation primitive rather than an actively exploited threat.
Local privilege escalation in Acer System Monitoring, a component bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator laptops, allows an authenticated local user to abuse a privileged Named Pipe service for unauthorized registry operations. Exploitation requires local access and the vulnerable service running, and the vendor rates the exploit as Unproven with no public exploit code identified at time of analysis. Successful abuse could elevate privileges or compromise the host, but realistic risk is confined to machines with these Acer gaming utilities deployed and an attacker already holding a low-privilege foothold.
Local authentication bypass in the Acer System Monitoring component bundled with NitroSense (Nitro laptops) and PredatorSense (Predator laptops) lets any user who already holds a session or code execution on the machine open a WebSocket connection to the monitoring service without supplying credentials, because the handshake never performs an authentication check (CWE-306). Exploitation is constrained to the local attack vector (AV:L) and requires the component to be installed and running; it is not remotely reachable, the vendor's own description hedges with 'under certain circumstances', and the exploit is unproven (E:U). Impact is confined to Low confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects on service functionality; no public exploit code and no confirmed active exploitation were identified at time of analysis, making this a low-priority issue by every available signal.
Acer System Monitoring, the WebSocket-enabled helper bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator laptops, is configured to bind its listener to all network interfaces rather than to localhost, so any host that can reach the port on the same network segment can talk to the service without authentication or user interaction. The consequences are limited - the assessed impact is confined to low-level confidentiality, integrity and availability effects (minor telemetry exposure or restricted interaction with the service) - and the issue is compounded only mildly by the fact that the utility must actually be installed and running on a reachable machine. This is a low-priority finding: no public exploit code exists, no confirmed active exploitation has been reported, and the vendor vector (CVSS 4.0 score 2.7) plus an independent assessment (CVSS 3.1 AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) agree that practical exposure is realistically limited to an attacker on the same LAN, hotel or office Wi-Fi.
Local attackers can extract a hard-coded AES encryption key from the Acer System Monitoring component, which is bundled with NitroSense and PredatorSense on Acer Nitro and Predator Windows gaming laptops. Exploitation requires local access to read the software binaries and recover the key, after which the attacker may access protected information or perform unauthorized actions, though impact is limited to low confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, and the issue is rated low priority.