VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7560

critical
Published 2016-10-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The rsyncd server in Fortinet FortiWLC 6.1-2-29 and earlier, 7.0-9-1, 7.0-10-0, 8.0-5-0, 8.1-2-0, and 8.2-4-0 has a hardcoded rsync account, which allows remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
fortinetfortiwlc{"endIncluding":"6.1-2-29"}
fortinetfortiwlc7.0-9-1
fortinetfortiwlc7.0-10-0
fortinetfortiwlc8.0-5-0
fortinetfortiwlc8.1-2-0
fortinetfortiwlc8.2-4-0

References

CWEs

CWE-798

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

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