CVE-2022-38378 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-38378?

CVE-2022-38378 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 16 Feb 2023. 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 FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38378?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2022-38378?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38378 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-38378 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38378 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-h5fc-q8mj-rvq7.