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CVE-2016-7560

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Fortinet — Fortiwlc

CWEs

References

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