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CVE-2025-1549 (GCVE-0-2025-1549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 16:50 – Updated: 2026-08-10 15:35
VLAI
Title
WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL Local Privilege Escallation
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-30 03:56 UTC
CWE
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL Client Affected: 12.0 , < 12.11.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:watchguard:mobile_vpn_with_ssl_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2025-10-29 16:50
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