CVE-2017-14187: A local privilege escalation and local code execution vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.8, and 5.2 and below versions allows…

PriorityP423medium6.2CVSS 3.0

AVPACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.46%

36.8th percentile

A local privilege escalation and local code execution vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.8, and 5.2 and below versions allows attacker to execute unauthorized binary program contained on an USB drive plugged into a FortiGate via linking the aforementioned binary program to a command that is allowed to be run by the fnsysctl CLI command.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	fortigate	—	—
fortinet	fortinet	—	—
fortinet	fortios	<= 5.2.0	—
fortinet	fortios	—	—
fortinet	fortios	5.4.0 – 5.4.8	—
fortinet	fortios	5.6.0 – 5.6.2	—
fortinet_inc	fortios	—	—
fortinet_inc	fortios	—	—
fortinet_inc	fortios	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.2MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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