VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5092

medium
Published 2016-07-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.9

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb before 5.5.3 allows remote authenticated administrators with read and write privileges to read arbitrary files by leveraging the autolearn feature.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
59%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
fortinetfortiweb{"endIncluding":"5.5.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.