Medium [CVE-2024-4944 +1] WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL Local Privilege Escallation
This medium-severity WatchGuard advisory covers CVE-2025-1549 and CVE-2024-4944 affecting Mobile VPN with SSL Client.
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Summary
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL client on Windows enables a local user to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the Windows system. This vulnerability is an additional unmitigated attack path for CVE-2024-4944.
This vulnerability is resolved in the Mobile VPN with SSL client for Windows version 12.11.5
- Mobile VPN with SSL Client 12.0 before 12.11.3
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
- 12.11.3
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 12.11.3. 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 2 months ago·verify at source
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