Watchguard vulnerabilities2 known to be exploited.

Vendor2 known exploited
The short answer

Watchguard has 71 published vulnerabilities across 101 products in our catalogue. 2 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Fireware, with 22. If you run Watchguard software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Watchguard flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2022-23176, on 11 April 2022. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Watchguard products have the most vulnerabilities?

Fireware leads with 22 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Watchguard vulnerabilities are being exploited?

2 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 8.8
    CVE-2022-23176HighKnown exploited
    WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances allow a remote attacker with unprivileged credentials to access the system with a privileged management session via exposed management access.

    Chance of use11%Known exploited since11 Apr 2022
  2. 9.8
    CVE-2022-26318CriticalKnown exploited
    WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Appliances Arbitrary Code Execution

    On WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances, an unauthenticated user can execute arbitrary code.

    Chance of use78%Known exploited since25 Mar 2022
Exploit likelihood

Which Watchguard flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 78%
    CVE-2022-26318CriticalKnown exploited

    On WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances, an unauthenticated user can execute arbitrary code, aka FBX-22786.

    CVSS9.8Published4 Mar 2022
  2. 59%

    Watchguard XCS 9.2 and 10.0 before build 150522 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the id parameter to ADMIN/mailqueue.spl.

    CVSS6.5Published8 Jul 2015
  3. 12%

    Buffer overflow in WGagent in WatchGuard WSM and Fireware before 11.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long sessionid value in a cookie.

    CVSS9.3Published19 Oct 2013
  4. 11%
    CVE-2022-23176HighKnown exploited

    WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances allow a remote attacker with unprivileged credentials to access the system with a privileged management session via exposed management access.

    CVSS8.8Published24 Feb 2022
  5. 8.4%

    An issue was discovered on WatchGuard AP100, AP102, and AP200 devices with firmware before 1.2.9.15.

    CVSS9.8Published30 Apr 2018
  6. 6.4%

    An issue was discovered on WatchGuard AP100, AP102, and AP200 devices with firmware before 1.2.9.15, and AP300 devices with firmware before 2.0.0.10.

    CVSS8.8Published2 May 2018
  7. 6.2%

    Buffer overflow in HTTP server on the WatchGuard SOHO firewall allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long GET request.

    CVSS10.0Published12 Feb 2001
  8. 5.2%

    The STARTTLS implementation in WatchGuard XCS 9.0 and 9.1 does not properly restrict I/O buffering, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert commands into encrypted SMTP sessions by sending a cleartext...

    CVSS6.8Published23 May 2011
  9. 5.1%

    WatchGuard Fireware v11.12.1 and earlier mishandles requests referring to an XML External Entity (XXE), in the XML-RPC agent.

    CVSS5.3Published22 Apr 2017
  10. 4.3%

    Format string vulnerability in the CLI interface for WatchGuard Firebox Vclass 3.2 and earlier, and RSSA Appliance 3.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via...

    CVSS10.0Published2 Apr 2003
Every product

All Watchguard products we track.

24 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 71 published vulnerabilities across 101 products and 132 versions from Watchguard. The most recent Watchguard flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2022-23176, on 11 April 2022.

2 Watchguard vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2022-23176 and CVE-2022-26318. The full list is on this page.

Fireware, with 22 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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