Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48887

Critical

Published: 08 April 2025

Published
08 April 2025
Modified
23 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0249 85.6th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48887 is a critical-severity Unverified Password Change (CWE-620) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiswitch. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 14.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A unverified password change vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSwitch GUI may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to change admin passwords via a specially crafted request

CWE(s)
CWE-620

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiswitch
7.6.0 · 6.4.0 — 6.4.15 · 7.0.0 — 7.0.11 · 7.2.0 — 7.2.9

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References