CVE-2017-7738 Information disclosure in FortiOS

What is CVE-2017-7738?

CVE-2017-7738 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 13 Dec 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Information Disclosure vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.5, 5.2 and below versions allow an admin user with super_admin privileges to view the current SSL VPN web portal session info which may contains user credentials through the fnsysctl CLI command.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7738?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7738?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7738 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-7738 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7738 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-6jcp-68rq-927h.