Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent up to 7.3 wapptunneld command injection

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A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent up to 7.3. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component wapptunneld. Performing a manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-46449. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent up to 7.3. This affects some unknown processing of the component wapptunneld. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) before 7.4 for macOS is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the wapptunneld component. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of input validation when the service uses network interface names to execute system utilities, resulting in command injection. An unprivileged local user with permissions to modify network interface names can exploit this by renaming a network interface to include a malicious shell payload via System Settings. When the "Log out from your IdP" action is subsequently triggered, the wapptunneld service processes the poisoned interface name, leading to the execution of arbitrary commands with root privileges.

It is possible to read the advisory at akamai.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-46449 since 05/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/14/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 7.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Akamai

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• Guardicore Platform Agent

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• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3

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