CVE-2026-2123
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- OpenText
Description
A security audit identified a privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent(<=OA 12.29) on Windows. Under specific conditions Operations Agent may run executables from specific writeable locations.Thanks to Manuel Rickli & Philippe Leiser of Oneconsult AG for reporting this vulnerability
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTextCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.10% · top 99% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected OA 12.22 – ≤ OA 12.29
What to do
Solution: The hotfix can be downloaded from the Marketplace https://marketplace.opentext.com/itom/content/operations-agent-hotfix-for-cve-2026-2123-privilege-escalation/ for the OA versions mentioned below. Please follow the readme.txt included in the hotfix zip file for install instructions. OA 12.24 - HFWIN_1224028.tar, HFWIN_1224029.tar OA 12.25 - HFWIN_1225045.tar,HFWIN_1225046.tar OA 12.26 - HFWIN_1226039.tar, HFWIN_1226040.tar OA 12.27 - HFWIN_1227023.tar, HFWIN_1227024.tar OA 12.28 - HFWIN_1228020.tar, HFWIN_1228021.tar OA 12.29 - HFWIN_1229006.tar, HFWIN_1229007.tar
References (1)
- https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000046068 (opens in a new tab)customer-entitlement
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-2123)Record last updated .