CVE-2016-7542

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.015 · 75 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.54% (75th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

15 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

A read-only administrator on Fortinet devices with FortiOS 5.2.x before 5.2.10 GA and 5.4.x before 5.4.2 GA may have access to read-write administrators password hashes (not including super-admins) stored on the appliance via the webui REST API, and may therefore be able to crack them.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.04.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.14.9mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USprimaryCWE-200USCWE-264US

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Fortinet FortiOS≤ 5.2.0 - 5.2.9, 5.4.1enisa_euvdEU
Fortinet Inc. FortiOS≤ 5.4.1fstec_bduRU
Fortinet Inc. FortiOS5.2.0 → 5.2.9fstec_bduRU
fortinet fortios= 5.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.7nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.8nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.2.9nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fortinet fortios= 5.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-03-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

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