CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7542

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-03-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

A read-only administrator on Fortinet devices with FortiOS 5.2.x before 5.2.10 GA and 5.4.x before 5.4.2 GA may have access to read-write administrators password hashes (not including super-admins) stored on the appliance via the webui REST API, and may therefore be able to crack them.

Affected configurations

• fortinet fortios 5.2.0 • fortinet fortios 5.2.1 • fortinet fortios 5.2.2 • fortinet fortios 5.2.3 • fortinet fortios 5.2.4 • fortinet fortios 5.2.5 • fortinet fortios 5.2.6 • fortinet fortios 5.2.7 • fortinet fortios 5.2.8 • fortinet fortios 5.2.9 • fortinet fortios 5.4.0 • fortinet fortios 5.4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References