CVE-2016-7542 in FortiOS

Summary

A read-only administrator on Fortinet devices with FortiOS 5.2.x before 5.2.10 GA and 5.4.x before 5.4.2 GA may have access to read-write administrators password hashes (not including super-admins) stored on the appliance via the webui REST API, and may therefore be able to crack them.

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• Reservation: 09/09/2016
• Disclosure: 03/30/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-93969 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-200 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.1
• EPSS: 0.00319
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7542
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7542
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-7542/