CVE-2026-12410: Gen Digital Ccleaner

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

Link following vulnerability in the Uninstaller component in CCleaner prior to 7.10.1464 on Windows allows a local, low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM via a symlink/junction created during application uninstallation, which CCleaner follows when deleting the application's data folder with elevated integrity.

Affected products

• Gen Digital Ccleaner: before 7.10.1464 (fixed in 7.10.1464)

Published 2026-08-05. Last modified 2026-09-08.