CVE-2016-4965 (GCVE-0-2016-4965)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
Summary
Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users with access to the nslookup functionality to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via the graph parameter to diagnosis_control.php.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-06 00:00
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