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CVE-2026-90465: Fireware OS Missing Authentication in FireCluster Sync Allows Privilege Escalation

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 37/100)

  • 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: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. No account or password is 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 missing authentication vulnerability in the FireCluster Sync processing allows an attacker positioned on the cluster interconnect, such as a compromised cluster peer or an on-path network attacker, to invoke privileged firewall management actions as root by sending a specially crafted request.

CriticalCVSS 9.4 · v4.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Oct 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 29, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 14th percentile

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Action score

37

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
37 / 40 · 9.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · WatchGuard
8.7
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CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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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

    • 2025.1 and later · before 2026.4affected
    • 12.0 and later · before 12.12.4affected
    • 12.0 and later · before 12.5.22affected

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-103594Fireware OS Stack Buffer Overflow in WireGuard Configuration Allows Remote Code Execution
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2026-19318Fireware OS Pre-Authentication Stack Buffer Overflow in iked Allows Remote Code Execution
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-19315Fireware OS Pre-Authentication Type Confusion in iked Allows Remote Code Execution
    37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-90442Oct 27, 2026 · Fireware OS Authenticated Stack Buffer Overflow in certd Allows Denial of Service
    34Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-90464Oct 27, 2026 · Fireware OS Missing Command Validation allows Authenticated Arbitrary File Modification as Root
    28Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-93434Oct 27, 2026 · Fireware OS XPath Injection in SSH Authentication Allows Blind Extraction of Configuration Secrets
    34Monitor

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

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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).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

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

  • CVE-2026-938650 days apartFireware OS Missing Authentication in FireCluster Sync Daemon Allows Remote Root Action Injection
    36Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

  • CVE-2026-904420 days apartFireware OS Authenticated Stack Buffer Overflow in certd Allows Denial of Service
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-7800861 days apartFireware OS Authenticated Buffer Overflow in wgagent
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-938640 days apartFireware OS Link Following in firewalld Allows Local Arbitrary File Overwrite as Root
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1138810 days apartFireware OS Stack Buffer Overflow in VPN Network Access Enforcement Allows Unprivileged Code Execution
    24Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CVSS vector

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

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Exploit maturity— → none
  3. CVSS8.7 → 9.4
  4. Severityhigh → critical

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References

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