CVE-2026-79813
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ClearPass client software
- Risk score
- 40/100
- CVSS
- 6.7 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 6 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ClearPass client software. Successful exploitation could allow a low-privileged local user to execute commands with elevated privileges on the affected system, if certain conditions outside of the attacker's control are met.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.7 medium
References
Original description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ClearPass client software. Successful exploitation could allow a low-privileged local user to execute commands with elevated privileges on the affected system, if certain conditions outside of the attacker's control are met.
Last activity 6 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.