CVE-2022-38378
At a glance Severity MEDIUM 4.0 EPSS EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2023-02-16 Updated 2024-10-22 Assigner fortinet NVD status Modified
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.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C fortinet CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary) CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.1.0 ≤ 2.0.9cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 < 7.0.8cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 < 7.2.2cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.0.0 < 7.0.8cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 < 7.2.1
Affected products Product Versions Fortinet · FortiOS affected 7.2.0 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.7 ; affected 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.11 ; affected 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.12 ; affected 6.0.0 ≤ 6.0.16 Fortinet · FortiProxy affected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.1 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.7 ; affected 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.11 ; affected 1.2.0 ≤ 1.2.13 ; affected 1.1.0 ≤ 1.1.6
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