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CVE-2023-45581

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-45581 is an improper privilege management vulnerability (CWE-269) affecting Fortinet FortiClientEMS versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.2 and before 7.0.10. A highly privileged Site administrator can exploit this by sending crafted HTTP/HTTPS requests to execute global administrative operations across other sites. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability allows for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.2.0, <= 6.2.4CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlientems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2.6, <= 6.2.9CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlientems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.4.0, <= 6.4.4CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlientems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.4.7, <= 6.4.9CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlientems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.6, <= 7.0.10CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlientems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0082 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 5,538 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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-23-357
Vendor Advisory