A privilege escalation vulnerability in WatchGuard Endpoint Protection's inter-process communication between the console and the protection service allows a local, low-privileged authenticated user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by injecting code into the trusted console process and issuing privileged commands to the service.

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Description A privilege escalation vulnerability in WatchGuard Endpoint Protection's inter-process communication between the console and the protection service allows a local, low-privileged authenticated user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by injecting code into the trusted console process and issuing privileged commands to the service.
Title WatchGuard Endpoint Protection Local Privilege Escalation in Console-Service Communication Allows SYSTEM Code Execution
First Time appeared Watchguard
Watchguard endpoint Security
Weaknesses CWE-269
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:watchguard:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Watchguard
Watchguard endpoint Security
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WatchGuard

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Updated: 2026-11-10T17:01:49.222Z

Reserved: 2026-06-26T09:41:49.464Z

Link: CVE-2026-57907

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-10T17:17:44.877

Modified: 2026-11-10T17:17:44.877

Link: CVE-2026-57907

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