CVE-2024-40591

State: Published
Severity: 8.0 High
Published: Feb 11, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jul 5, 2024

Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability [CWE-266] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.6.0, 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and before 7.0.15 allows an authenticated admin whose access profile has the Security Fabric permission to escalate their privileges to super-admin by connecting the targetted FortiGate to a malicious upstream FortiGate they control.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	fortinet

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Escalation of privilege

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiOSFortinet	7.6.0Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.4Affected 7.2.0 through 7.2.9Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.15Affected 6.4.0 through 6.4.15Affected

References

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-302

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