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. This issue affects the Mobile VPN with SSL client for Windows up to and including 2026.2.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-psirt/advisory/wgsa-2026-00027 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.3 · watchguardNVD modified 2026-10-25 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:watchguard:mobile_vpn_with_ssl:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*cpe:2.3:o:watchguard:fireware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*