An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability [CWE-522] in FortiNAC-F 7.2.0, FortiNAC 9.4.1 and below, 9.2.6 and below, 9.1.8 and…

Description

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability [CWE-522] in FortiNAC-F 7.2.0, FortiNAC 9.4.1 and below, 9.2.6 and below, 9.1.8 and below, 8.8.0 all versions, 8.7.0 all versions may allow a local attacker with system access to retrieve users' passwords.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.14% · top 96% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.9.

Weakness

• CWE-522: Improper access control (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-522 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Fortinet · FortiNAC

  • affected 9.4.0 – ≤ 9.4.1
  • affected 9.2.0 – ≤ 9.2.6
  • affected 9.1.0 – ≤ 9.1.8
  • affected 8.8.0 – ≤ 8.8.11
  • affected 8.7.0 – ≤ 8.7.6

What to do

Solution: Please upgrade to FortiNAC-F version 7.2.1 or above Please upgrade to FortiNAC version 9.4.2 or above Please upgrade to FortiNAC version 9.2.7 or above After the upgrade, the CLI account password should be changed. To know which accounts require a new password, the following command can be run: grep ":\$1" /etc/shadow Then, login to the CLI with that user and type "passwd" to change the password and update the hash.

References (1)

• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-456 (opens in a new tab)x_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 22 Oct 2024, 20:46 UTC.