{"id":"CVE-2018-7079","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-7079","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:47:45.570Z","title":"Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level.","description":"Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager guest authorization failure. Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level. This could allow low-privilege users to view, modify, or delete guest users. Resolution: Fixed in 6.7.6 and 6.6.10-hotfix.","published":"2018-12-07T21:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:02:38.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-alert@hpe.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["arubanetworks/clearpass policy manager"],"epss":{"score":0.00941,"percentile":0.60774,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.94%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2018-007.txt","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-alert@hpe.com"},{"url":"https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2018-007.txt","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7079","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}