CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17544

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Apr 09, 2019 | Modified: Aug 28, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.0 to 5.6.10, 5.4 and below allows admin users to elevate their profile to super_admin via restoring modified configurations.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Fortios Fortinet * 5.4.0 (including)
Fortios Fortinet 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.10 (including)
Fortios Fortinet 6.0.0 (including) 6.0.6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References