CVE-2021-44426: Anydesk

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in AnyDesk before 6.2.6 and 6.3.x before 6.3.5. An upload of an arbitrary file to a victim's local ~/Downloads/ directory is possible if the victim is using the AnyDesk Windows client to connect to a remote machine, if an attacker is also connected remotely with AnyDesk to the same remote machine. The upload is done without any approval or action taken by the victim.

Affected products

• Anydesk Anydesk: before 6.2.6 (fixed in 6.2.6); from 6.3.0, before 6.3.3 (fixed in 6.3.3)

Published 2022-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.