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CVE-2022-38378 — An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS ver

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modif

CVSS
4.0 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.11% (top 70.20%)
CWE
CWE-269
Published
2023-02-16T18:06:36.339Z
Last modified
2024-10-22T20:49:30.558Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C

01What is this vulnerability?

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
FortinetFortiOS7.2.0, 7.0.0, 6.4.0, 6.2.0, 6.0.0
FortinetFortiProxy7.2.0, 7.0.0, 2.0.0, 1.2.0, 1.1.0

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

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

09References

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