Is CVE-2026-79806 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-79806?

CVE-2026-79806 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.8).

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CVE-2026-79806

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the ClearPass Policy Manager OnGuard Linux agent could allow malicious users on a Linux instance to elevate their user privileges. A successful exploit allows a malicious user to escalate to root privileges on the affected Linux client.