QID 43979

Date Published: 2023-02-22

QID 43979: Fortinet FortiOS Escalation of Privilege Vulnerability (FG-IR-22-346)

An improper privilege management vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy may allow an administrator that has access to the admin profile section to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands. Affected Versions:
FortiOS version 7.2.0
FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.7
FortiOS 6.4 all versions
FortiOS 6.2 all versions
FortiOS 6.0 all versions

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated):
Detection checks for vulnerable version of FortiOS.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause Escalation of Privilege

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

Solution

Fortinet has released patch addressing the vulnerability. For more information please refer to FG-IR-22-346

Vendor References

FG-IR-22-346 - www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-346

CVEs related to QID 43979

CVE-2022-38378 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
FG-IR-22-346			www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-346

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