vulnerability in Operations Agent(<=OA 12.29) on Windows. Under specific conditions
Operations Agent may run executables from specific writeable locations.Thanks to Manuel Rickli & Philippe Leiser of
Oneconsult AG for reporting this vulnerability
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Solution
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
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| Description | A security audit identified a privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent(<=OA 12.29) on Windows. Under specific conditions Operations Agent may run executables from specific writeable locations.Thanks to Manuel Rickli & Philippe Leiser of Oneconsult AG for reporting this vulnerability | |
| Title | Privilege escalation vulnerability in Operations Agent | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-280 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: OpenText
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-31T18:00:56.901Z
Reserved: 2026-02-06T14:55:51.920Z
Link: CVE-2026-2123
Updated: 2026-03-31T18:00:14.961Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-31T18:16:46.293
Modified: 2026-03-31T18:16:46.293
Link: CVE-2026-2123
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