CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8491

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2017-02-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.4 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

The presence of a hardcoded account named 'core' in Fortinet FortiWLC allows attackers to gain unauthorized read/write access via a remote shell.

Affected configurations

• fortinet fortiwlc 7.0-9-1 • fortinet fortiwlc 7.0-10-0 • fortinet fortiwlc 8.1-2-0 • fortinet fortiwlc 8.1-3-2 • fortinet fortiwlc 8.2-4-0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References