CVE-2021-42758: Fortinet Fortiwlc

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiWLC 8.6.1 and below may allow an authenticated and remote attacker with low privileges to execute any command as an admin user with full access rights via bypassing the GUI restrictions.

Affected products

• Fortinet Fortiwlc: from 8.2.4, up to and including 8.2.7; from 8.3.0, up to and including 8.3.3; from 8.5.0, up to and including 8.5.5; version 8.0.5 only; version 8.0.6 only; version 8.1.2 only; …

Published 2021-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.