CVE-2016-4968 is a vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) versions prior to 4.2.5, where a flaw in the linkreport/tmp/admin_global page allows remote authenticated users to discover administrator cookies through a GET request. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires authentication, but grants high confidentiality impact by exposing sensitive administrator cookies. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiwan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.