vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS: Improper Privilege Management (CVE-2017-14187)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 24, 2018
Added
Sep 6, 2019
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

fortios-upgrade-latest
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