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    CVE-2026-90464

    An external control of file path vulnerability in a WatchGuard Fireware OS firewall diagnostic command allows a remote, authenticated attacker with at least read-only (Device Monitor) privileges and access to the management CLI to create, truncate, or overwrite arbitrary files and modify kernel parameters with root privileges by submitting a specially crafted command. Written content is limited to numeric values.

    Published:Oct 27, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 27, 2026
    EPS:Oct 27, 2026
    EPSS Score:
    CVSS Score:7.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Watchguard
    Product
    Fireware Os

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-132 Symlink Attack
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-180 Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels
    CAPEC-206 Signing Malicious Code
    CAPEC-234 Hijacking a privileged process
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-35 Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files
    CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
    CAPEC-61 Session Fixation
    CAPEC-62 Cross Site Request Forgery
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-642 Replace Binaries
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High