CVE-2020-36986: Preyproject Prey

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Prey 1.9.6 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local users to potentially execute code with elevated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in the CronService to insert malicious code that would execute during application startup or system reboot.

Affected products

• Preyproject Prey: version 1.9.6 only

Published 2026-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.