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CVE-2016-8491
The presence of a hardcoded account named 'core' in Fortinet FortiWLC allows attackers to gain unauthorized read/write access via a remote…
Critical9.1EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- fortinet
Description
The presence of a hardcoded account named 'core' in Fortinet FortiWLC allows attackers to gain unauthorized read/write access via a remote shell.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
- Remote shell access
- CWE-798 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Fortinet · Fortinet FortiWLC
- affected 7.0-9-1
- affected 7.0-10-0
- affected 8.1-2-0
- affected 8.1-3-2
- affected 8.2-4-0
References (2)
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-065 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94186 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .