What is GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw?

GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Forcepoint VPN Client that allows a local...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw cover?

GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-12694. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw?

GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xwHighCVSS 7.8

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Forcepoint VPN Client that allows a local...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 4, 2026

Last Modified

June 30, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-12694 →

📋 Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Forcepoint VPN Client that allows a local non-administrative user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. This issue affects VPN Client for Windows: versions 6.11.3 and prior.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12694
https://support.forcepoint.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Local-Privilege-Escalation-in-VPN-Client-for-Windows
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8w99-hmp7-97xw