THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2024-48887
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2024-48887

Fortiswitch vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
14.8%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
A unverified password change vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSwitch GUI may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to change admin passwords via a specially crafted request
Affected vendor
Fortinet
Affected product
Fortiswitch
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2025-04-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-48887

  • Confirm whether Fortinet Fortiswitch is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-48887.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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