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CVE-2016-4968
The linkreport/tmp/admin_global page in Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users to discover…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The linkreport/tmp/admin_global page in Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users to discover administrator cookies via a GET request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 92779 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://docs.fortinet.com/uploaded/files/3236/fortiwan-v4.2.5-release-notes.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#724487 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://fortiguard.com/advisory/fortiwan-multiple-vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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