CVE-2022-42476

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-03-07
Updated: 2026-10-22
Assigner: fortinet
NVD status: Modified

Description

A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.8, FortiOS 6.4.0 through 6.4.11, FortiOS 6.2.0 through 6.2.12, FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.7, FortiProxy 2.0.0 through 2.0.11, FortiProxy 1.2 all versions, FortiProxy 01.02 all versions, FortiProxy 1.1 all versions, FortiProxy 01.01 all versions allows privileged VDOM administrators to escalate their privileges to super admin of the box via crafted CLI requests.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:C	fortinet
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-45546
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-42476

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0203 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0199 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.1.0 ≤ 1.1.6
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.2.0 ≤ 1.2.13
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.11
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.7
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:7.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.12
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.11
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.8
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
Fortinet · FortiOS	affected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.3 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.8 ; affected 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.11 ; affected 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.12
Fortinet · FortiProxy	affected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.1 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.7 ; affected 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.11 ; affected 1.2.1 ≤ 1.2.13 ; affected 01.02.00 ; affected 1.1.4 ≤ 1.1.6

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-401

Sources

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