Fortinet has issued urgent security updates to address a critical vulnerability in FortiSwitch that could allow attackers to change passwords without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-48887,<\/a> has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.8<\/strong> out of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Fortinet\u2019s advisory, the vulnerability lies in the FortiSwitch GUI and could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to alter admin passwords via a specially crafted request. The issue is linked to an unverified password change vulnerability (CWE-620).<\/p>\n\n\n(7) WARNING: Extremely Critical Vulnerability In FortiSwitch GUI Allows Attacker To Modify Admin Passwords | LinkedIn<\/a>: Extremely Critical Vulnerability In FortiSwitch GUI Allows Attacker To Modify Admin Passwords<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fortinet has issued urgent security updates to address a critical vulnerability in FortiSwitch that could allow attackers to change passwords without authorization. The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-48887, has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. According to Fortinet\u2019s advisory, the vulnerability lies in the FortiSwitch GUI and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}