CVE-2026-79806: Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Clearpass Policy Manager Cppm

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the ClearPass Policy Manager OnGuard Linux agent could allow malicious users on a Linux instance to elevate their user privileges. A successful exploit allows a malicious user to escalate to root privileges on the affected Linux client.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Clearpass Policy Manager Cppm: from 6.14.0, up to and including 6.14.0; from 6.11.0, up to and including 6.11.15

Published 2026-10-06. Last modified 2026-10-08.