CVE-2020-36879: Flexsense Diskboss

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Flexsense DiskBoss 11.7.28 allows unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges using any of its services, enabling remote code execution during startup or reboot with escalated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted service path vulnerability by specifying a malicious service name in the 'sc qc' command, allowing them to execute arbitrary system commands.

Affected products

• Flexsense Diskboss: version 11.7.28 only
• Flexsense Diskboss Enterprise: version 11.7.28 only
• Flexsense Diskboss Pro: version 11.7.28 only
• Flexsense Diskboss Server: version 11.7.28 only
• Flexsense Diskboss Ultimate: version 11.7.28 only

Published 2025-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.