CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1909
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer before 5.0.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.5; FortiSwitch 3.3.x before 3.3.3; FortiCache 3.0.x before 3.0.8; and FortiOS 4.1.x before 4.1.11, 4.2.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x before 4.3.17 and 5.0.x before 5.0.8 have a hardcoded passphrase for the Fortimanager_Access account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via an SSH session.
Affected configurations
• fortinet fortios (<= 4.3.16)
• fortinet fortios 5.0
• fortinet fortios 5.0.0
• fortinet fortios 5.0.1
• fortinet fortios 5.0.2
• fortinet fortios 5.0.3
• fortinet fortios 5.0.4
• fortinet fortios 5.0.5
• fortinet fortios 5.0.6
• fortinet fortios 5.0.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blog.fortinet.com/post/brief-statement-regarding-issues-found-with-fortios blog.fortinet.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135225/FortiGate-OS-5.0.7-SSH-Backdoor.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/26 Exploit
- http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/multiple-products-ssh-undocumented-login-vulnerability www.fortiguard.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034663 www.securitytracker.com
- https://twitter.com/esizkur/status/686842135501508608 twitter.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39224/ Exploit
- http://blog.fortinet.com/post/brief-statement-regarding-issues-found-with-fortios blog.fortinet.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135225/FortiGate-OS-5.0.7-SSH-Backdoor.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/26 Exploit
- http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/multiple-products-ssh-undocumented-login-vulnerability www.fortiguard.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034663 www.securitytracker.com
- https://twitter.com/esizkur/status/686842135501508608 twitter.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39224/ Exploit