CVE-2021-27579: Snowsoftware Snow Inventory Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Snow Inventory Agent through 6.7.0 on Windows uses CPUID to report on processor types and versions that may be deployed and in use across an IT environment. A privilege-escalation vulnerability exists if CPUID is enabled, and thus it should be disabled via configuration settings.

Affected products

• Snowsoftware Snow Inventory Agent: from 5.3.1, up to and including 6.7.0

Published 2021-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.