get_admin_user

What get_admin_user does on Fortimanager

AI agents call get_admin_user to retrieve information from Fortimanager without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_admin_user is rated Low

This is a Read operation—it retrieves information about admin users without side effects. Severity is medium rather than low because admin user details (including permissions, roles, access levels) are sensitive data in a security management context; exposure could enable privilege escalation attacks or help attackers identify high-value targets for social engineering.

From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_admin_user' and description states 'Get detailed information about a specific administrator user.' The verb 'get' and 'detailed information' indicate data retrieval with no modification.

Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation

The rule that runs get_admin_user safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Fortimanager, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_admin_user, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_admin_user": {}
  }
}

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