Fireware OS Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Diagnostic Tasks Allows Denial of Service

published 2026-09-29 40 d ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2026-89493

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits: 0; none known

An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Fireware OS's diagnostic tasks feature allows a low-privileged, authenticated user to cause a denial of service of the system's diagnostic tools by repeatedly starting and aborting a specially crafted diagnostic task through the web UI.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

WatchGuard Fireware OS 12.5.21, 12.12.3, 2026.2.3, 2026.3.2

psirt.watchguard.com/CVE-2026-18105 advisory

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 39 d ago (2026-09-30)

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	7.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	4.0	7.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

WatchGuard Fireware OS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

psirt.watchguard.com /CVE-2026-18105
vendor-advisory, patch

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-18105
NVD CVE-2026-18105

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Summary