CVE-2022-26118: Fortinet Fortianalyzer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege chaining vulnerability [CWE-268] in FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer 6.0.x, 6.2.x, 6.4.0 through 6.4.7, 7.0.0 through 7.0.3 may allow a local and authenticated attacker with a restricted shell to escalate their privileges to root due to incorrect permissions of some folders and executable files on the system.

Affected products

• Fortinet Fortianalyzer: from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.0.11; from 6.2.0, up to and including 6.2.9; from 6.4.0, before 6.4.8 (fixed in 6.4.8); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.4 (fixed in 7.0.4)
• Fortinet FortiManager: from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.0.11; from 6.2.0, up to and including 6.2.9; from 6.4.0, before 6.4.8 (fixed in 6.4.8); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.4 (fixed in 7.0.4)

Published 2022-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.