CVE-2016-7560

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.7%

Critical (9.8) in fortinet fortiwlc. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-798
Published: 2016-10-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

fortinet:fortiwlc

References

http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93286
http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93286

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