CVE-2017-17544 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2017-17544?

CVE-2017-17544 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 9 Apr 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17544?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17544?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17544 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-17544 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17544 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
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Also known as GHSA-h72v-g53g-mw9x.