fkie_cve-2021-22126
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-03-17 14:15
Modified
2025-07-24 20:16
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A use of hard-coded password vulnerability in FortiWLC version 8.5.2 and below, version 8.4.8 and below, version 8.3.3 to 8.3.2, version 8.2.7 to 8.2.6 may allow a local, authenticated attacker to connect to the managed Access Point (Meru AP and FortiAP-U) as root using the default hard-coded username and password.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-20-147Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fortinet fortiwlc *
fortinet fortiwlc 8.2.6
fortinet fortiwlc 8.2.7
fortinet fortiwlc 8.3.2
fortinet fortiwlc 8.3.3


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