CVE-2021-24011 Privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiNAC

What is CVE-2021-24011?

CVE-2021-24011 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiNAC, published on 10 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiNAC version below 8.8.2 may allow an admin user to escalate the privileges to root by abusing the sudo privileges.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24011?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortinac.

How do I fix CVE-2021-24011?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24011 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-24011 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiNAC

• CVE-2022-39952 Path traversal in FortiNAC Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-33299 Deserialization in FortiNAC Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26117 Hardcoded credentials in Fortinet FortiNAC High 8.8
• CVE-2022-38375 Missing authorization in FortiNAC High 8.6
• CVE-2022-39953 Privilege escalation in FortiNAC High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m4cm-3mg6-8x6j.