CVE-2025-2781

WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL Local Privilege Escalation via Non-Standard Installation Directory

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Mar 28, 2025
Updated: Aug 8, 2026
Reserved: Mar 25, 2025

Description

The WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL Client on Windows does not properly configure directory permissions when installed in a non-default directory. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	WatchGuard

Weaknesses

CWE-276

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Mobile VPN with SSL ClientWatchGuard	11.0 to before 12.11.2Affected

References

https://psirt.watchguard.com/CVE-2025-2781vendor-advisory
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-psirt/advisory/wgsa-2025-00004

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