CVE-2016-7561: Fortinet Fortiwlc

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Fortinet FortiWLC 6.1-2-29 and earlier, 7.0-9-1, 7.0-10-0, 8.0-5-0, 8.1-2-0, and 8.2-4-0 allow administrators to obtain sensitive user credentials by reading the pam.log file.

Affected products

• Fortinet Fortiwlc: up to and including 6.1-2-29; version 7.0-9-1 only; version 7.0-10-0 only; version 8.0-5-0 only; version 8.1-2-0 only; version 8.2-4-0 only

Published 2016-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.