CVE-2022-38378

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.0
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
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

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:Cfortinet
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Fortinet · FortiOSaffected 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 · FortiProxyaffected 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

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD