🛡️ CVE-2022-38378
🟡 CVSS 4.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
4.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-16
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fortios 7.2.0 7.2.1
fortiproxy 7.2.0 7.2.2

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