CVE-2017-14187 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2017-14187?

CVE-2017-14187 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 24 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A local privilege escalation and local code execution vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.8, and 5.2 and below versions allows attacker to execute unauthorized binary program contained on an USB drive plugged into a FortiGate via linking the aforementioned binary program to a command that is allowed to be run by the fnsysctl CLI command.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14187?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14187?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-14187 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-14187 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14187 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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
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Also known as GHSA-vhrf-7c9m-v558.