Acer's vulnerability footprint spans a moderately broad portfolio encompassing consumer devices, productivity software, and system-management tools, ranging from Chromebooks and laptops to firmware and administrative applications such as Care Center and Aspire models. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew toward serious outcomes, with a meaningful share reaching critical severity, while the recurring weakness classes—including improper authentication, sensitive information exposure, OS command injection, and out-of-bounds writes—reflect both the authentication and input-handling demands of endpoint and management software. The exposure concentrates across consumer-oriented device lines and system administration tools, patterns typical of hardware vendors managing diverse hardware and software surface area. Defenders should prioritize patches for internet-facing and administratively privileged components; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Acer Inc. over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (55 CVEs).
55 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-49185CRITICAL The FieldX MDM adb messaging topic passes unverified payloads directly into Runtime.exec(), allowing command/instruction injection. | Jun 4, 2026 | 9.8 | 41 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-49201CRITICAL The upload.cgi binary, responsible for processing device backups, contains a hardcoded AES encryption key. This allows an attacker to decrypt, modify, and re-encrypt system backups | May 29, 2026 | 9.8 | 41 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-49200CRITICAL The acer_cgi.log file in the device firmware is accessible without authentication via the web interface. This file contains cleartext login credentials (for web and Telnet), leadin | May 29, 2026 | 9.8 | 41 | NO | NO |
CVE-2006-6121HIGH Acer Notebook LunchApp.APlunch ActiveX control allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by calling the Run method. | Nov 26, 2006 | 9.3 | 40 | NO | YES |
CVE-2026-49199CRITICAL Crafted MQTT messages can trigger command injection, resulting in root-level code execution on the target device. | May 29, 2026 | 9.8 | 39 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-49197CRITICAL Web endpoints intended for the Acer Connect app improperly validate the HTTP Authorization header, failing to block requests when Base64 decoding fails. | May 29, 2026 | 9.8 | 39 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-50211CRITICAL Leftover engineering diagnostics and factory-level diagnostic software remain exposed on retail builds, giving malicious apps write privileges to internal NVRAM registers. | Jun 4, 2026 | 9.8 | 38 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-49186CRITICAL The local MQTT broker does not enforce topic-level Access Control Lists (ACLs). This allows any client to subscribe using wildcard characters (# or +) to enumerate hidden network d | Jun 4, 2026 | 9.8 | 38 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-49188CRITICAL The ai_cmd utility executes with full root permissions. It pipes socket inputs directly to popen(), paving the way for unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary root commands. | Jun 4, 2026 | 9.8 | 38 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-50214CRITICAL The /v1/Plan service relies entirely on a shared global API token for full administrative management, allowing arbitrary creation of zero-cost network access plans. | Jun 4, 2026 | 9.8 | 37 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (55 CVEs).
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