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CVE-2024-40591

Published: Feb 11, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.0

HIGH

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Fortinet

FortiOS

affected
7.6.0
affected
7.4.0 - <= 7.4.4
affected
7.2.0 - <= 7.2.9
affected
7.0.0 - <= 7.0.15
affected
6.4.0 - <= 6.4.15

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-266

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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