{"id":"CVE-2021-24017","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24017","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:21:08.139Z","title":"An improper authentication in Fortinet FortiManager version 6.4.3 and below, 6.2.6 and below allows attacker to assign arbitrary Policy and Object modules via crafted requests to the request handler.","description":"An improper authentication in Fortinet FortiManager version 6.4.3 and below, 6.2.6 and below allows attacker to assign arbitrary Policy and Object modules via crafted requests to the request handler.","published":"2021-09-30T16:15:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:39:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@fortinet.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["fortinet/fortimanager"],"epss":{"score":0.00554,"percentile":0.45966,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.55%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-20-189","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-20-189","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24017","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}