Fortinet FortiWAN up to 4.5.7 os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Fortinet FortiWAN up to 4.5.7. It has been declared as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2021-26115. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Fortinet FortiWAN up to 4.5.7. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An OS command injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in FortiWAN version 4.5.7 and below Command Line Interface may allow a local, authenticated and unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root via executing a specially-crafted command.An OS command injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in FortiWAN Command Line Interface may allow a local, authenticated and unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root via executing a specially-crafted command.

The advisory is shared for download at fortiguard.fortinet.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-26115 since 01/25/2021. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/22/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Fortinet

Name

• FortiWAN

Version

• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 4.5.3
• 4.5.4
• 4.5.5
• 4.5.6
• 4.5.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.fortinet.com/

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