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Fortinet FortiOS - Path Traversal Vulnerability (FG-IR-22-401)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172579

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Synopsis

Fortinet Firewall is affected by a privilege escalation.

Description

The version of FortiOS installed on the remote host is affected by a path traversal vulnerability. A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiOS and FortiProxy may allow privileged VDOM administrators to escalate their privileges to super admin of the box via crafted CLI requests.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Fortigate version 6.2.13 / 6.4.12 / 7.0.9 / 7.2.4 or later.

See Also

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-401

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172579

File Name: fortios_FG-IR-22-401.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 3/15/2023

Updated: 4/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:fortinet:fortios

Required KB Items: Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42476

IAVA: 2023-A-0125-S