Privilege escalation from nginx user to root

Summary

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in FortiSOAR may allow a GUI user who has already found a way to modify system files (via another, unrelated and hypothetical exploit) to execute arbitrary Python commands as root.

Acknowledgement

Fortinet is pleased to thank security researchers Ryan Catterall and OJ Reeves of Beyond Binary for discovering and reporting this vulnerability under responsible disclosure.

Timeline

2022-09-06: Initial publication