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VAR-201703-0263

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-21 23:37

A read-only administrator on Fortinet devices with FortiOS 5.2.x before 5.2.10 GA and 5.4.x before 5.4.2 GA may have access to read-write administrators password hashes (not including super-admins) stored on the appliance via the webui REST API, and may therefore be able to crack them. FortiOS Contains an information disclosure vulnerability.Information may be obtained. Fortinet FortiOS is prone to an local information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Fortinet FortiOS 5.2.0 through 5.2.9 and 5.4.1 are vulnerable. Fortinet FortiOS is a set of security operating systems developed by Fortinet Corporation for the FortiGate network security platform. The system provides users with various security functions such as firewall, anti-virus, IPSec/SSL VPN, Web content filtering and anti-spam. A security vulnerability exists in Fortinet in FortiOS 5.2.x prior to 5.2.10 GA and 5.4.x prior to 5.4.2 GA. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain permission to write and read hashes of administrator passwords, and possibly decipher passwords

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CVE-2016-7542 (GCVE-0-2016-7542)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-10-25 14:35

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-23 14:00 UTC

CWE

Information leak

Assigner

fortinet CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 47 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94690	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-050	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037394	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Fortinet	FortiOS	Affected: 5.2.0 - 5.2.9, 5.4.1

Date Public

2016-12-02 00:00

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