CVE-2021-42758

published 2021-12-08

CVE-2021-42758: An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiWLC 8.6.1 and below may allow an authenticated and remote attacker with low privileges to execute…

Priority P3 55 high 8.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiWLC 8.6.1 and below may allow an authenticated and remote attacker with low privileges to execute any command as an admin user with full access rights via bypassing the GUI restrictions.

Affected

19 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	fortinet_fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
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fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
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fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	—	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	8.2.4 – 8.2.7	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	8.3.0 – 8.3.3	—
fortinet	fortiwlc	8.5.0 – 8.5.5	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 9.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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