CVE-2016-1909

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

15/01/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer before 5.0.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.5; FortiSwitch 3.3.x before 3.3.3; FortiCache 3.0.x before 3.0.8; and FortiOS 4.1.x before 4.1.11, 4.2.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x before 4.3.17 and 5.0.x before 5.0.8 have a hardcoded passphrase for the Fortimanager_Access account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via an SSH session.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios::::::::		4.3.16 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.7:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios::::::::		4.3.16 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.7:::::::*

CVE-2016-1909

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools