Fortinet addressed multiple vulnerabilities in several products

Fortinet released security patches to address multiple High-Severity vulnerabilities in several products of the vendor.

Fortinet addressed multiple vulnerabilities in several products of the vendor. Impacted products are FortiADC, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiClient, FortiDeceptor, FortiEDR, FortiNAC, FortiSwitch, FortiRecorder, and FortiVoiceEnterprise.

Four of the fixed issues have been rated as a “high” severity, they are CVE-2022-26117, CVE-2021-43072, CVE-2022-30302, and CVE-2021-41031.

Below are the details of these flaws:

CVE-2022-26117: Unprotected MySQL root account – An empty password in configuration file vulnerability [CWE-258] in FortiNAC may allow an authenticated attacker to access the MySQL databases via the CLI.

CVE-2021-43072: stack-based buffer overflow via crafted CLI execute command – A buffer copy without checking size of input (‘Classic Buffer Overflow’) vulnerability [CWE-120] in FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, FortiOS and FortiProxy may allow a privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code or command via crafted CLI `execute restore image` and `execute certificate remote` operations with the TFTP protocol.

CVE-2022-30302: Path traversal vulnerability – Multiple relative path traversal vulnerabilities [CWE-23] in FortiDeceptor management interface may allow a remote and authenticated attacker to retrieve and delete arbitrary files from the underlying filesystem via specially crafted web requests.

CVE-2021-41031: Privilege Escalation via directory traversal attack – A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiClient for Windows may allow a local unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to SYSTEM via the named pipe responsible for FortiESNAC service.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.