Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-27993

Medium

Published: 03 May 2023

Published
03 May 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0005 15.9th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-27993 is a medium-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiadc. Its CVSS base score is 6.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 15.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A relative path traversal [CWE-23] in Fortinet FortiADC version 7.2.0 and before 7.1.1 allows a privileged attacker to delete arbitrary directories from the underlying file system via crafted CLI commands.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiadc
7.2.0 · 5.2.0 — 7.0.5 · 7.1.0 — 7.1.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References