Threat database

CVE-2026-92817 is a vulnerability in the Ignition Perspective module of Inductive Automation Ignition. It involves improper validation of session privileges, allowing an authenticated user with Vision project access to escalate to Designer-level privileges by reusing a valid Vision session identifier. This privilege escalation could enable execution of arbitrary code within the Ignition Gateway process. The vulnerability affects versions 8.1.0 through 8.1.54 and 8.3.0 through 8.3.8. It has a high severity with a CVSS score of 8.8.

In Ignition 8.1.53 and earlier, the Gateway "Create Project Role(s)" setting shipped blank, which permitted any authenticated user to create projects (if they can execute gateway scripts). Ignition 8.1.54 restricts project creation to Designer sessions and no longer relies on this setting. The 8.3 series is not affected.

A privileged Ignition user, intentionally or otherwise, imports an external file with a specially crafted payload, which executes embedded malicious code.

Ignition by Inductive Automation, when installed with default OS service account settings, may expose the host system to an elevated code execution risk via the gateway backup restore functionality. An authenticated user with Gateway Administrator privileges can import a malicious gateway backup (.gwbk) file containing crafted project resources, scripts, or modules, resulting in code execution on the host system. This affects both Windows and Linux installations. On Windows, default installations often run the Ignition service as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, resulting in code execution with full local system privileges. On Linux, default installations commonly run the Ignition service as root or with elevated privileges. Specific privilege level depends on installation configuration.