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CVE-2026-41288 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in WatchGuard Agent on Windows caused by incorrect permission assignment in the patch management component. The flaw allows an authenticated local user with standard privileges to abuse overly permissive access controls on a resource used by the patch management functionality and elevate privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The issue affects WatchGuard Agent on Windows up to and including version 1.25.02.0000.
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A privilege escalation vulnerability in the WatchGuard Agent for Windows patch management component caused by incorrect permission assignment, allowing an authenticated local user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM.
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in WatchGuard Agent on Windows that can elevate privileges to SYSTEM via chained agent service vulnerabilities.
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