CVE-2024-40591: high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
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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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
Affected products
Fortinet · FortiOSRelated CVEs — Fortinet FortiOS
In the same product, most dangerous first.