Privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-2123
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerOpenText
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-03-31 18:16:46 UTC
Updated2026-04-01 14:24:02 UTC
DescriptionA 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

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v4.0 8.6 HIGH from [email protected]

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: 0.000130000 probability, percentile 0.021520000 (date 2026-04-02)

Problem Types: CWE-280 | CWE-280 CWE-280 Improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
4.0[email protected]Secondary8.6HIGHCVSS: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/C...
4.0CNACVSS8.6HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CVSS v4.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Passive
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Sub Conf.
High
Sub Integrity
High
Sub Availability
High

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA OpenText Operations Agent affected OA 12.22 OA 12.29 custom Windows

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000046068 [email protected] portal.microfocus.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Additional Advisory Data

Solutions

CNA: 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

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