criticalREV. 01

CVE-2022-39952Fortinet FortiNAC — External Control of a File Path

Fortinet's network access controller lets a request choose where a file is written, which an unauthenticated attacker turns into code execution on the appliance.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade FortiNAC per Fortinet's advisory, and check the appliance for files written while it was reachable.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Not listed
CVE published
2023-02-16
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
medium
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190
Severity
critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsNetwork access to the appliance

Behind the card

2 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2022-39952 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07