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CVE-2026-13224: Fireware OS Path Traversal in WebUI Management Agent Allows Arbitrary Local File Read

HighCVSS 8.2 · v4.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.36% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A path traversal vulnerability in the Fireware OS WebUI management agent allows an authenticated administrator to read or list arbitrary files on the local filesystem by sending a specially crafted management request.

Path traversal

EUVD-2026-89496

Published: Sep 30, 2026
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 30th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.2 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · WatchGuard: 8.2; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
watchguard	fireware	cpe:2.3:o:watchguard:fireware

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WatchGuard). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

WatchGuard Fireware OS
- 12.0 and later · before 12.5.21affected
- 2026.3 and later · before 2026.3.2affected
- 2025.0 and later · before 2026.2.3affected
- 12.0 and later · before 12.12.3affected

Affected versions · NVD (4)

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

watchguard fireware12.0 and later · before 12.5.21
watchguard fireware12.12 and later · before 12.12.3
watchguard fireware2025.0 and later · before 2026.2.3
watchguard fireware2026.3 and later · before 2026.3.2

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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92Now
CVE-2025-14733WatchGuard Firebox iked Out of Bounds Write VulnerabilityKEV
76This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-8247Jul 3, 2026 · WatchGuard Firebox admd Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-13046Sep 30, 2026 · Fireware OS Deserialization of Untrusted Data in samld Allows Remote Code Execution
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-18105Sep 30, 2026 · Fireware OS Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Diagnostic Tasks Allows Denial of Service
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Credits

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Yukusawa18finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2026-1305489 days apartWatchGuard Firebox Arbitrary File Write via Path Traversal in Management Web UI
34Monitor
CVE-2026-3987182 days apartWatchGuard Firebox Arbitrary File Write vis Path Traversal in Fireware Web UI
34Monitor
CVE-2026-861360 days apartFireware OS Missing Authorization in wgagent Management API Allows Denial of Service - Variant A
28Monitor
CVE-2026-861050 days apartFireware OS Improper Authorization in Access Portal Reverse Proxy
24Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log (2)

SSVC exploitation— → noneSep 30, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC
Exploit maturity— → noneSep 30, 2026, 2:32 AM UTC

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References

psirt.watchguard.com/CVE-2026-13224

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