{"id":"CVE-2026-13079","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-13079","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:29:29.671Z","title":"A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL client for Windows allows a local attacker to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM on the machine where the client is installed.","description":"A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL client for Windows allows a local attacker to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM on the machine where the client is installed.\n\nThis issue affects the Mobile VPN with SSL client for Windows up to and including 2026.2.","published":"2026-07-03T00:16:51.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T21:10:01.000Z","status":"Modified","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:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-732"],"affected":["watchguard/mobile vpn with ssl","watchguard/fireware"],"epss":{"score":0.0014,"percentile":0.03323,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://psirt.watchguard.com/CVE-2026-13079","source":"5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3"},{"url":"https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-psirt/advisory/wgsa-2026-00027","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13079","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."}