CWE
305 22
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2021-26102: Path Traversal

First published: Thu Dec 19 2024(Updated: )

A relative path traversal vulnerability (CWE-23) in FortiWAN version 4.5.7 and below, 4.4 all versions may allow a remote non-authenticated attacker to delete files on the system by sending a crafted POST request. In particular, deleting specific configuration files will reset the Admin password to its default value.

Credit: psirt@fortinet.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Fortinet FortiWan<=4.5.7=4.4
Fortinet FortiWan>=4.4.0<4.5.8

Remedy

Please upgrade to FortiWAN version 4.5.8 or above Please upgrade to AscenLink version 7.2.24 or above

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