CVE-2026-2123
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent
02 Description
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.10% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 0.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.6 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-07-24.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-03-31 17:18Z7 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-03-31 18:00Z7 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-02-06
- Assigning CNA
- OpenText
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.6)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-280Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or PrivilegesBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- bd9db5d30b14e99987b12c5824571d0876af1b9fffceeaf82b4c9da5eda8f954
05 Affected products
06 References
- portal.microfocus.comhttps://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000046068
07 Remediation
The hotfix can be downloaded from the Marketplace https://marketplace.opentext.com/itom/content/operations-agent-hotfix-for-cve-2026-2123-privilege-escalation/ for the OA versions mentioned below. Please follow the readme.txt included in the hotfix zip file for install instructions. OA 12.24 - HFWIN_1224028.tar, HFWIN_1224029.tar OA 12.25 - HFWIN_1225045.tar,HFWIN_1225046.tar OA 12.26 - HFWIN_1226039.tar, HFWIN_1226040.tar OA 12.27 - HFWIN_1227023.tar, HFWIN_1227024.tar OA 12.28 - HFWIN_1228020.tar, HFWIN_1228021.tar OA 12.29 - HFWIN_1229006.tar, HFWIN_1229007.tar