CVE-2022-42476

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 7, 2023
Updated: Oct 22, 2026
Reserved: Oct 7, 2022

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

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	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

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Escalation of privilege

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiOSFortinet	7.2.0 through 7.2.3Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.8Affected 6.4.0 through 6.4.11Affected 6.2.0 through 6.2.12Affected
FortiProxyFortinet	7.2.0 through 7.2.1Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.7Affected 2.0.0 through 2.0.11Affected 1.2.1 through 1.2.13Affected 01.02.00Affected 1.1.4 through 1.1.6Affected 01.01.00 through 01.01.03Affected

References

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

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