CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17544
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.0 to 5.6.10, 5.4 and below allows admin users to elevate their profile to super_admin via restoring modified configurations.
Affected configurations
• fortinet fortios (<= 5.4.0)
• fortinet fortios (>= 5.6.0 <= 5.6.10)
• fortinet fortios (>= 6.0.0 <= 6.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107839 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-17-053 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107839 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-17-053 Vendor Advisory