CVE-2017-7738

N/A
Published: December 13, 2017 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:25 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFortiOS

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

An Information Disclosure vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0 to 5.6.2, 5.4.0 to 5.4.5, 5.2 and below versions allow an admin user with super_admin privileges to view the current SSL VPN web portal session info which may contains user credentials through the fnsysctl CLI command.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 5.25.4.0 ≤ v ≤ 5.4.55.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 5.6.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102151
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-17-172

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200

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