Authenticated Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Unauthorized File Access and Modification in ClearPass Policy Manager (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM))

CVE-2026-79805
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.43 % · percentile 37 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
hpe
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

An authenticated path traversal vulnerability exists in ClearPass Policy Manager. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to read and modify certain files on the underlying operating system.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hhpe
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security-alert@hpe.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM)affected 6.14.0 ≤ 6.14.0 ; affected 6.11.0 ≤ 6.11.15

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD