CVE-2016-20057: Netgate Registry Cleaner

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NETGATE Registry Cleaner build 16.0.205 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the NGRegClnSrv service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

Affected products

• Netgate Registry Cleaner: up to and including 16.0.205

Published 2026-04-04. Last modified 2026-07-21.