What is CVE-2016-4968?

CVE-2016-4968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiwan, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-09-21.

How severe is CVE-2016-4968?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Fortinet Fortiwan

CVE-2016-4968

The linkreport/tmp/admin_global page in Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users to discover administrator cookies via a GET request.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.035 (87.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Fortinet Fortiwan
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

92779 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
VU#724487 (x_refsource_CERT-VN, US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4968?: CVE-2016-4968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiwan, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-09-21.
How severe is CVE-2016-4968?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.