A local privilege escalation and local code execution vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.8, and 5.2 and below versions allows attacker to execute unauthorized binary program contained on an USB drive plugged into a FortiGate via linking the aforementioned binary program to a command that is allowed to be run by the fnsysctl CLI command.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-14187

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-vhrf-7c9m-v558

Published

May 13, 2022 1:43 AM

Last Modified

May 13, 2022 1:43 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

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