Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-38378 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios and Fortiproxy

CVSS 6.0 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

HIGH

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

NONE

local

low complexity

fortinet

CWE-269

NVD

Published: 2023-02-16

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Fortinet Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.2.0 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.2.1 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.2.2 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.0.3 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.0.4 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.0.5 Fortinet Fortiproxy 7.0.6 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.0 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.1 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.2 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.3 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.4 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.5 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.1.6 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.0 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.1 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.2 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.3 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.4 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.5 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.6 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.7 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.8 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.9 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.10 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.11 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.12 Fortinet Fortiproxy 1.2.13 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.0 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.1 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.2 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.3 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.4 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.5 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.6 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.7 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.8 Fortinet Fortiproxy 2.0.9	38
OS	Fortinet Fortinet Fortios 7.2.0 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.0 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.1 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.2 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.3 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.4 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.5 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.6 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.7 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.8 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.9 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.10 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.11 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.12 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.13 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.14 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.15 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.16 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.17 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.0 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.1 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.2 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.3 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.4 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.5 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.6 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.7 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.8 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.9 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.10 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.11 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.12 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.13 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.14 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.15 Fortinet Fortios 6.2.16 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.0 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.1 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.2 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.3 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.4 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.5 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.6 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.7 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.8 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.9 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.10 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.11 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.12 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.13 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.14 Fortinet Fortios 6.4.15 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.0 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.1 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.2 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.3 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.4 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.5 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.6 Fortinet Fortios 7.0.7	60

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Restful Privilege Elevation
Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-346