CVE-2025-9142 (GCVE-0-2025-9142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-14 14:30 – Updated: 2026-01-14 14:50
VLAI?
Title
Local privilege escalation in Harmony SASE Windows Agent
Summary
A local user can trigger Harmony SASE Windows client to write or delete files outside the intended certificate working directory.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
checkpoint Hramony SASE Affected: Check Point Harmony SASE Windows Agent versions prior to 12.2
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