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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-38378

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-h5fc-q8mj-rvq7

Published

February 16, 2023 9:30 PM

Last Modified

February 25, 2023 12:30 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 18, 2025 6:25 AM

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