Administrative privilege escalation via undisclosed shell commands
Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Jul 8, 2026
Improper privilege management in Fortinet FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud allows local users to escalate privileges via shell commands. Fortinet has not disclosed which shell commands receive excessive privileges or how their authorization checks fail. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrative CLI session and can compromise data and interrupt the service.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in Fortinet FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud allows local users to escalate privileges via shell commands. Fortinet has not disclosed which shell commands receive excessive privileges or how their authorization checks fail. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrative CLI session and can compromise data and interrupt the service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-33503
- Published
- Jan 14, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2026
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiManager
- Classifications
- CWE-266, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=6.4.0 <=6.4.15
- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <=7.0.16
- Affected versionversion=7.2.0 <=7.2.5
- Affected versionversion=7.4.0 <=7.4.3
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