CVE•Published 2026-10-22•Modified 2026-10-23•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-96293

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-312Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information CWE-532Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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.

Timeline

Published 2026-10-22

Modified 2026-10-23

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC Sploitus VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-96293

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-96293

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-96293

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2026-96293