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CVE-2022-38378

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0…

Medium4.0EPSS 0.24%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
fortinet

Description

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By fortinet

  2. · 6 months later

    Published

  3. · 20 months later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-38378, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
fortinetCNA (assigner)3.1Medium4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Fortinet · FortiOS

    • affected 7.2.0
    • affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.7
    • affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.11
    • affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.12
    • affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.16

  • Fortinet · FortiProxy

    • affected 7.2.0 – ≤ 7.2.1
    • affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.7
    • affected 2.0.0 – ≤ 2.0.11
    • affected 1.2.0 – ≤ 1.2.13
    • affected 1.1.0 – ≤ 1.1.6

What to do

Solution: Please upgrade to FortiOS version 7.2.1 or above Please upgrade to FortiOS version 7.0.8 or above Please upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.2.2 or above Please upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.0.8 or above

References (1)

Sources

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