Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-57907

WatchGuard Endpoint Protection Local Privilege Escalation in Console-Service Communication Allows SYSTEM Code Execution

publishedCWE-269

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.

Technical severity8.5 highCVSS 4.0 · CNA: WatchGuard
Published2026-11-10Source updated 2026-11-10
Collected2026-11-101 attributed source

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
Endpoint Security
WatchGuard
Platforms: Windows
≥ 0; < 8.00.26.0011 (affected, semver)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: WatchGuard

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
4.0 / 8.5
high
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCNA: WatchGuard

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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