CVE-2016-1909General(fortinet / fortios)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer before 5.0.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.5; FortiSwitch 3.3.x before 3.3.3; FortiCache 3.0.x before 3.0.8; and FortiOS 4.1.x before 4.1.11, 4.2.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x before 4.3.17 and 5.0.x before 5.0.8 have a hardcoded passphrase for the Fortimanager_Access account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via an SSH session.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-264

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • fortios

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
fortios

9 versions affected across 1 product

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-04-22: 104-22
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Full discourse1 post
  • Like coding@zouwuaoe
    General

    @VxoTay @changwei1006 and the societal marginalization of ex-convicts, choosing instead to view the world—and even notorious hardcoded flaws like CWE-798, CVE-2021-40119, CVE-2025-20309, CVE-2016-1909, and CVE-2010-2772.

    Post summary

    The message merely enumerates a set of CVEs without offering any technical, exploit, patch, or activity details.

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CPE platform detail10 entries

10 of 10 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
OSfortinetfortios---
OSfortinetfortios5.0--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.0--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.1--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.2--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.3--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.4--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.5--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.6--
OSfortinetfortios5.0.7--

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