CVE-2026-46449CWE-78command-injection
CVE-2026-46449
Medium · published October 14, 2026
What it is
The Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) before 7.4 for macOS is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the wapptunneld component. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of input validation when the service uses network interface names to execute system utilities, resulting in command injection. An unprivileged local user with permissions to modify network interface names can exploit this by renaming a network interface to include a malicious shell payload via System Settings. When the "Log out from your IdP" action is subsequently triggered, the wapptunneld service processes the poisoned interface name, leading to the execution of arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.7 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.01675 · 76.7th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
- Published
- 2026-10-14T09:16Z
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
15 OCT 03:32Z
EPSS moved — → 2%
epss
14 OCT 00:00Z
The Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) before 7.4 for macOS is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the wapptunneld component
cvelistv5
14 OCT 00:00Z
The Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) before 7.4 for macOS is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the wapptunneld component
cvelistv5