Directory deletion via CLI relative path traversal
Published May 3, 2023 · Updated Oct 22, 2024
Relative path traversal in the FortiADC CLI allows local users with high privileges to delete arbitrary directories using crafted commands. The CLI directory-deletion handling fails to confine relative path components to the intended directory, allowing traversal into underlying filesystem paths. A privileged CLI session is required; successful exploitation removes attacker-selected directories and can impair appliance operation.
Summary
What happened
Relative path traversal in the FortiADC CLI allows local users with high privileges to delete arbitrary directories using crafted commands. The CLI directory-deletion handling fails to confine relative path components to the intended directory, allowing traversal into underlying filesystem paths. A privileged CLI session is required; successful exploitation removes attacker-selected directories and can impair appliance operation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-27993
- Published
- May 3, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2024
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiADC
- Classifications
- CWE-23, CWE-22, T1485
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- May 3, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 22, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.2.0 <=5.2.8
- Affected versionversion=5.3.0 <=5.3.7
- Affected versionversion=5.4.0 <=5.4.5
- Affected versionversion=6.0.0 <=6.0.4
- Affected versionversion=6.1.0 <=6.1.6
- Affected versionversion=6.2.0 <=6.2.6
- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <=7.0.5
- Affected versionversion=7.1.0 <=7.1.1
- Affected versionversion=7.2.0
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