CVE-2017-17544: Fortinet FortiOS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.0 to 5.6.10, 5.4 and below allows admin users to elevate their profile to super_admin via restoring modified configurations.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS: up to and including 5.4.0; from 5.6.0, up to and including 5.6.10; from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.0.6

Published 2019-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.