CVE-2019-15708 — A system command injection vulnerability in the FortiAP-S/W2 6

A system command injection vulnerability in the FortiAP-S/W2 6.2.1, 6.2.0, 6.0.5 and below, FortiAP 6.0.5 and below and FortiAP-U below 6.0.0 under CLI admin console may allow unauthorized administrators to run arbitrary system level commands via specially crafted ifconfig comman

01What is this vulnerability?

A system command injection vulnerability in the FortiAP-S/W2 6.2.1, 6.2.0, 6.0.5 and below, FortiAP 6.0.5 and below and FortiAP-U below 6.0.0 under CLI admin console may allow unauthorized administrators to run arbitrary system level commands via specially crafted ifconfig commands.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Fortinet	Fortinet FortiAP	S/W2 — 6.2.1, 6.2.0, 6.0.5 and below
Fortinet	Fortinet FortiAP	U — 6.0.5 and below
Fortinet	Fortinet FortiAP	below 6.0.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-15T22:27:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-25T14:25:55.858Z

09References

• fortiguard.com — https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-209