CVE-2024-45328
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-45328 is a high-severity Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortisandbox. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 24.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources like elevated CLI commands, mitigating the incorrect authorization vulnerability.
Applies least privilege to restrict low-privileged administrators from executing elevated CLI commands via the GUI.
Ensures correct access control decisions for system resources, preventing low-privileged users from bypassing authorization to run elevated CLI commands.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The incorrect authorization vulnerability directly allows low-privileged users to execute elevated CLI commands, enabling privilege escalation via exploitation of the software flaw.
NVD Description
An incorrect authorization vulnerability [CWE-863] in FortiSandbox 4.4.0 through 4.4.6 may allow a low priviledged administrator to execute elevated CLI commands via the GUI console menu.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-45328 is an incorrect authorization vulnerability (CWE-863) affecting FortiSandbox versions 4.4.0 through 4.4.6. The issue enables a low-privileged administrator to execute elevated CLI commands via the GUI console menu, bypassing intended access controls.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation requires local access (AV:L) to the system but can result in high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), as reflected in its CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 with unchanged scope (S:U). This could allow the attacker to escalate privileges and gain full control over the affected FortiSandbox instance.
The Fortinet PSIRT advisory (FG-IR-24-261) provides details on mitigation and patches; security practitioners should consult https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-261 for remediation guidance.
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