CVE-2016-1909 is a critical vulnerability affecting multiple Fortinet products, including FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, FortiCache, and FortiOS, due to a hardcoded passphrase for the Fortimanager_Access account. This flaw allows remote unauthenticated attackers to gain administrative access via SSH. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability presents a severe risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability). While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit modules exist, including a Metasploit auxiliary module and an ExploitDB entry, indicating readily available exploitation tools, despite limited community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.3.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.