Authenticated Local Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in the OnGuard Agent of ClearPass Policy Manager

published 2026-10-06 last mo. modified 2026-10-07 last mo. also EUVD-2026-93898

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 0%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last mo. (2026-10-07)

Exploit prediction

0.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

support.hpe.com /hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05158en_us&docLocale=en_US

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-79812
NVD CVE-2026-79812

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