FortiSIEM 7.0.0 Path Traversal for Privilege Escalation
CVE-2023-40714 Published on April 2, 2025
A relative path traversal in Fortinet FortiSIEM versions 7.0.0, 6.7.0 through 6.7.2, 6.6.0 through 6.6.3, 6.5.1, 6.5.0 allows attacker to escalate privilege via uploading certain GUI elements
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-40714 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
Relative Path Traversal
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. This allows attackers to traverse the file system to access files or directories that are outside of the restricted directory.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-40714
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Affected Versions
Fortinet FortiSIEM:- Version 7.0.0 is affected.
- Version 6.7.0, <= 6.7.2 is affected.
- Version 6.6.0, <= 6.6.3 is affected.
- Version 6.5.0, <= 6.5.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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