Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.0 to 5.6.10, 5.4 and below allows admin users to elevate their profile to super_admin via restoring modified configurations.
Published: 2019-04-09
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8704 A privilege escalation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.0 to 5.6.10, 5.4 and below allows admin users to elevate their profile to super_admin via restoring modified configurations.
History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00381}

epss

{'score': 0.00361}


Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Fortinet Fortios
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fortinet

Published:

Updated: 2024-10-25T14:30:50.620Z

Reserved: 2017-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17544

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Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.340Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-09T16:29:00.367

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:18:08.320

Link: CVE-2017-17544

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Weaknesses