Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2024-45331 lets a low-privileged attacker who already has local access escalate privileges on affected Fortinet management and analytics products. It is not reported as actively exploited in the provided sources, but compromise of FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer can affect security operations and device administration.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation for Fortinet management systems because they administer or analyze security infrastructure. Treat as a moderate-priority fix unless local access is broadly available, shared, or suspected compromised; then accelerate response.
Technical view
Fortinet describes an incorrect privilege assignment issue, CWE-266, affecting FortiAnalyzer, FortiAnalyzer Cloud, and FortiManager across listed 6.4, 7.0, 7.2, and 7.4 releases. CVSS 3.1 is 6.9 with local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, user interaction required, and high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to organizations running the affected FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, or FortiAnalyzer Cloud versions. The attacker needs an existing low-privileged local foothold or account context, so this is mainly a post-compromise or insider-risk escalation issue.
Exploitation context
The source bundle says privilege escalation is possible through specific shell commands, but does not provide public exploit details. KEV status is false, so active exploitation is not supported by the provided evidence.
Researcher notes
The key constraint is local, low-privileged access with user interaction. The sources do not establish remote exploitation, weaponized public exploitation, or KEV listing. Avoid assuming affected versions beyond Fortinet’s listed FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiAnalyzer Cloud ranges.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiAnalyzer Cloud versions against the affected ranges.
- Apply Fortinet’s official remediation from advisory FG-IR-24-127.
- Restrict shell and local access to trusted administrative users only.
- Review low-privileged accounts on affected appliances and remove unnecessary access.
- Monitor Fortinet advisories for updated fixed-version guidance.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether any deployed FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer version is in the affected ranges.
- Check FortiAnalyzer Cloud tenant versions against Fortinet’s advisory guidance.
- Review account lists for low-privileged users with shell or local appliance access.
- Look for unusual privilege changes or administrative actions on affected systems.
- Document remediation status and exceptions for each affected management instance.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Conservative CVE-to-ATT&CK context
These mappings and lookup hints may be relevant to the vulnerability behavior, CWE, affected product, or exposure path. Glexia-inferred context is not an official MITRE, ATT&CK, CWE, or CVE Program mapping.
ATT&CK lookup starting points
Use these exact CWE pages and searches to review the Glexia ATT&CK library from this CVE's weakness and description context.
CWE-266: Exact CWE lookup
Use the exact CWE identifier as the starting point before reviewing related ATT&CK behavior. Open the exact CWE lookup page first, then review the ATT&CK searches from that MITRE weakness context. This is a Glexia lookup hint, not an official ATT&CK mapping.
Open ATT&CK lookupCVE-2024-45331 mapping review
Open the CVE-to-ATT&CK bridge for reviewed, inferred, or future official mappings tied to this CVE.
Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.9 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
These fields come from the CVE record and ADP containers, not from Glexia's Take. They preserve time-varying source decisions such as CISA SSVC, KEV status, CVSS metrics, and provider references.
SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
1 official scoreWe collect every scored CVSS vector available in the official CNA and ADP containers. When more than one version is present, the table keeps the source vectors side by side instead of collapsing them into the highest score.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C1.35.9fortinetVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.9MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability timeline
Timeline events are normalized from CVE metadata, CNA source timelines, ADP timelines, and KEV metadata when present.
- CVE reservedCVE Program
The CVE ID was reserved by the assigning CNA.
- CVE publishedCVE Program
The CVE record was published.
- CVE updatedCVE Program
The CVE record metadata indicates this as the latest update time.
ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-127CVE reference, fortinet
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
CWE links open Glexia weakness intelligence pages with official CWE context, developer remediation guidance, and related CVE mappings.
Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Incorrect Privilege Assignment represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.