Mobile VPN with SSL Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary
A local privilege escalation vlnerability in the WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL client on Windows enables a local user to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileged.
What this means
In plain English
A local privilege escalation vlnerability in the WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL client on Windows enables a local user to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileged. The official description requires local access to the affected system. Privilege escalation can let an existing user or process gain permissions beyond those originally granted.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 12.10.4.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- Mobile VPN with SSL Client 12.0 before 12.10.4
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
- 12.10.4
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 12.10.4. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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