CVE-2017-17544: 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…

PriorityP338high7.2CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.73%

74.9th percentile

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	fortinet	—	—
fortinet	fortios	< 6.2.0	6.2.0
fortinet	fortios	<= 5.4.0	—
fortinet	fortios	—	—
fortinet	fortios	5.6.0 – 5.6.10	—
fortinet	fortios	6.0.0 – 6.0.6	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.09.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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