CVE-2016-4965 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4965?

CVE-2016-4965 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Sep 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users with access to the nslookup functionality to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via the graph parameter to diagnosis_control.php.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4965?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiwan.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4965?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4965 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2016-4965 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4965 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2021-26102 Path traversal in FortiWAN Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-26114 SQL injection in Fortinet FortiWAN Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-44252 Auth bypass in FortiWAN High 8.6
• CVE-2023-44251 Path traversal in FortiWAN High 8.1
• CVE-2021-26112 Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiWAN High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5qjv-3cv4-jfx6.