CVE-2021-22126

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Mar 17, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 4, 2021

Description

A use of hard-coded password vulnerability in FortiWLC version 8.5.2 and below, version 8.4.8 and below, version 8.3.3 to 8.3.2, version 8.2.7 to 8.2.6 may allow a local, authenticated attacker to connect to the managed Access Point (Meru AP and FortiAP-U) as root using the default hard-coded username and password.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:X/RC:X	fortinet

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper access control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiWLCFortinet	8.5.0 through 8.5.2Affected 8.4.4 through 8.4.8Affected 8.4.0 through 8.4.2Affected 8.3.2 through 8.3.3Affected 8.2.6 through 8.2.7Affected

References

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-20-147

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