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🛡️ CVE-2026-41287 — agent

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-121 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the WatchGuard Agent discovery service on Windows allows Overflow Buffers. An unauthenticated attacker on the same local network could exploit this vulnerability to crash the agent service.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-41287 is classified as CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow. An oversized write to a stack buffer overwrites saved state such as return addresses, which can redirect execution.

Affected software

CVE-2026-41287 is recorded against 1 package.

  • agent (fixed in 1.25.03.0000)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

psirt.watchguard.com
www.watchguard.com

Other advisories for this package

agent has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-121
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
agent — 1.25.03.0000

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