CVE-2022-30298 Privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiSOAR

What is CVE-2022-30298?

CVE-2022-30298 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSOAR, published on 6 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiSOAR before 7.2.1 allows a GUI user who has already found a way to modify system files (via another, unrelated and hypothetical exploit) to execute arbitrary Python commands as root.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-30298?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortisoar.

How do I fix CVE-2022-30298?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-30298 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-30298 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-30298 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSOAR

• CVE-2024-47572 Code injection in FortiSOAR High 8.3
• CVE-2024-21760 Code injection in FortiSOAR High 7.7
• CVE-2023-25605 Missing authorization in FortiSOAR High 7.5
• CVE-2022-23443 Missing authorization in Fortinet FortiSOAR High 7.5
• CVE-2023-27995 Code injection in FortiSOAR High 7.2

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-7mwv-v7fm-5jwc.