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CVE-2022-45859

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45859 is an insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability (CWE-522) affecting FortiNAC-F 7.2.0 and various FortiNAC versions (9.4.1 and below, 9.2.6 and below, 9.1.8 and below, 8.8.0 all versions, 8.7.0 all versions). This vulnerability allows a local attacker with system access to retrieve user passwords. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 4.4, it requires high privileges and local access, but could lead to high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.7.0, <= 9.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortinac:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.2.0, < 9.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortinac:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.4.0, < 9.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortinac:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortinac-f:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.7.0, <= 8.7.6CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortinac:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
4.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0014 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

fortinetvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

fortiguard.com / psirt/FG-IR-22-456
Vendor Advisory