CVE-2024-40591

published 2025-02-11

CVE-2024-40591: 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…

Priority P3 42 high 7.2 CVSS 3.1

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

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

12 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	fortigate	—	—
fortinet	fortinet	—	—
fortinet	fortios	—	—
fortinet	fortios	—	—
fortinet	fortios	>= 6.4.0 < 6.4.16	6.4.16
fortinet	fortios	6.4.0 – 6.4.15	—
fortinet	fortios	>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.16	7.0.16
fortinet	fortios	7.0.0 – 7.0.15	—
fortinet	fortios	>= 7.2.0 < 7.2.10	7.2.10
fortinet	fortios	7.2.0 – 7.2.9	—
fortinet	fortios	>= 7.4.0 < 7.4.5	7.4.5
fortinet	fortios	7.4.0 – 7.4.4	—

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CWE-266