Security Advisory

CVE-2024-40591

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-11 16:09:02

Last updated 2026-02-26 19:09:17

Assigner fortinet

State PUBLISHED

Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability [CWE-266] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.6.0, 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and before 7.0.15 allows an authenticated admin whose access profile has the Security Fabric permission to escalate their privileges to super-admin by connecting the targetted FortiGate to a malicious upstream FortiGate they control.

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