HPE ClearPass up to 6.11.15/6.14.0 Client privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in HPE ClearPass up to 6.11.15/6.14.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Client. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-79813. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in HPE ClearPass up to 6.11.15/6.14.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Client. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ClearPass client software. Successful exploitation could allow a low-privileged local user to execute commands with elevated privileges on the affected system, if certain conditions outside of the attacker's control are met.

The advisory is shared for download at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-79813 since 08/25/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 10/06/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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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Vendor

• HPE

Name

• ClearPass

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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