HPE ClearPass Policy Manager up to 6.11.15/6.14.0 OnGuard denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in HPE ClearPass Policy Manager up to 6.11.15/6.14.0. It has been classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component OnGuard. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-79812. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in HPE ClearPass Policy Manager up to 6.11.15/6.14.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component OnGuard. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the OnGuard agent of HPE Networking ClearPass Policy Manager. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated local attacker to interrupt the normal operation of the agent service.

The advisory is shared at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-79812 since 08/25/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/06/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Productinfo

Type

• Policy Management Software

Vendor

• HPE

Name

• ClearPass Policy Manager

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5
• 6.11.6
• 6.11.7
• 6.11.8
• 6.11.9
• 6.11.10
• 6.11.11
• 6.11.12
• 6.11.13
• 6.11.14
• 6.11.15
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.hpe.com/

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