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VAR-201702-0116

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-20 23:23

The presence of a hardcoded account named 'core' in Fortinet FortiWLC allows attackers to gain unauthorized read/write access via a remote shell. FortinetFortiWLC is a wireless controller from Fortinet. FortinetFortiWLC hard-coded has a security bypass vulnerability that an attacker can use to gain access to sensitive information. FortiWLC is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability

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CVE-2016-8491 (GCVE-0-2016-8491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-10-25 14:41

Summary

The presence of a hardcoded account named 'core' in Fortinet FortiWLC allows attackers to gain unauthorized read/write access via a remote shell.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-24 20:11 UTC

CWE

Remote shell access

Assigner

fortinet mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-065	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94186	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Fortinet	Fortinet FortiWLC	Affected: 7.0-9-1 Affected: 7.0-10-0 Affected: 8.1-2-0 Affected: 8.1-3-2 Affected: 8.2-4-0

Date Public

2016-11-09 00:00

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