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Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Forcepoint VPN Client that allows a local non-administrative user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. This issue affects VPN Client for Windows: versions 6.11.3 and prior.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-04 | Published 2026-06-04 | Updated 2026-06-04 | Assigner forcepoint




HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Credits

Francisco Jose Carot Ripolles (KPMG Spain) finder

References

support.forcepoint.com/...calation-in-VPN-Client-for-Windows

cve.org (CVE-2025-12694)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12694)

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