CVE-2022-38378: Fortinet FortiOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 and before 7.0.7 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.7 allows an attacker that has access to the admin profile section (System subsection Administrator Users) to modify their own profile and upgrade their privileges to Read Write via CLI or GUI commands.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS: from 6.0.0, before 7.0.8 (fixed in 7.0.8); from 7.2.0, before 7.2.1 (fixed in 7.2.1)
• Fortinet FortiProxy: from 1.1.0, up to and including 2.0.9; from 7.0.0, before 7.0.8 (fixed in 7.0.8); from 7.2.0, before 7.2.2 (fixed in 7.2.2)

Published 2023-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.