CVE-2021-47945: Argus Surveillance Dvr

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argus Surveillance DVR 4.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the DVRWatchdog service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the Program Files directory to be executed with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts.

Affected products

• Argus Argus Surveillance Dvr

Published 2026-05-10. Last modified 2026-07-25.