{"id":"CVE-2026-115253","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-115253","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:58:16.752Z","title":"An incorrect permission assignment vulnerability in the WatchGuard Agent's log directory allows a local, authenticated non-administrative user to create, modify, append to, or delete the agent's log files and write other files into the directory.","description":"An incorrect permission assignment vulnerability in the WatchGuard Agent's log directory allows a local, authenticated non-administrative user to create, modify, append to, or delete the agent's log files and write other files into the directory. This allows an attacker to tamper with or destroy the agent's security logs and stage further local attacks by placing executable content in a directory owned by a privileged service.","published":"2026-10-22T09:17:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T04:18:14.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-276","CWE-732"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00129,"percentile":0.02557,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-22","score":0.00096,"percentile":0.00661}]},"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 (0.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-22T09:17:16.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.3","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T09:17:16.137Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://psirt.watchguard.com/CVE-2026-115253","source":"5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115253","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."}