CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-40591

7.2 HIGH Published 2025-02-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-02-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
Weaknesses
CWE-266

Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability [CWE-266] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.6.0, 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and before 7.0.15 allows an authenticated admin whose access profile has the Security Fabric permission to escalate their privileges to super-admin by connecting the targetted FortiGate to a malicious upstream FortiGate they control.

Affected configurations

• fortinet fortios (>= 6.4.0 < 6.4.16) • fortinet fortios (>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.16) • fortinet fortios (>= 7.2.0 < 7.2.10) • fortinet fortios (>= 7.4.0 < 7.4.5) • fortinet fortios 7.6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness

References