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CVE-2026-12556
Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Easy Start for macOS, versions prior to 2.16.7.260722. These potential vulnerabilities may lead to escalation of privilege. HP is releasing updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.
What this means for your business
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.2% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 5% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 7.7
- Weakness
- CWE-319
- Assigned by
- hp-security-alert@hp.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-09-03
- Sources
- NVD