CVE-2026-96293
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Description
A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in WatchGuard Endpoint Security's Full Disk Encryption feature for macOS allows a local, unprivileged user or process to obtain a managed computer's FileVault Personal Recovery Key by reading a persistently written diagnostic log file left readable by all local users.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.9
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3
Published
2026-10-22 09:17:17.057000
Last modified
2026-10-23 09:17:08.730000
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"sourceIdentifier": "5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3",
"published": "2026-10-22T09:17:17.057",
"lastModified": "2026-10-23T09:17:08.730",
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}
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"Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
"valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
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