CVE-2016-7542 Information disclosure in FortiOS

What is CVE-2016-7542?

CVE-2016-7542 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 30 Mar 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7542?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7542?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7542 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-7542 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7542 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

• CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-55591 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-42475 Fortinet FortiOS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.3

All Fortinet Fortios vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-67xj-hc36-xj6h.