CVE-2026-90441: WatchGuard Fireware

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A missing authorization vulnerability in the wgagent management daemon's session initialization function allows an authenticated, low-privileged user (including a read-only or guest administrator account) to crash the wgagent process and read arbitrary files accessible to the daemon by submitting a specially crafted management API request.

Affected products

• WatchGuard Fireware: from 12.0, before 12.5.21 (fixed in 12.5.21); from 12.12, before 12.12.3 (fixed in 12.12.3); from 2025.0, before 2026.2.3 (fixed in 2026.2.3); from 2026.3, before 2026.3.2 (fixed in 2026.3.2)

Published 2026-09-30. Last modified 2026-10-06.