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Fortinet fixed multiple command injection bugs in FortiADC and FortiTester

Fortinet addressed multiple vulnerabilities impacting its products and warned of a high-severity command injection flaw in FortiADC.

Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet addressed several vulnerabilities impacting its products. The compaby also warned customers of a high-severity command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-39947 (CVSS score of 8.6), affecting the Application Delivery Controller FortiADC.

The CVE-2022-39947 flaw is an improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS Command vulnerability in FortiADC, it can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution via specifically crafted HTTP requests.

“An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS Command vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiADC may allow an authenticated attacker with access to the web GUI to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted HTTP requests.” reads the advisory published by the vendor.

Below is the list of affected versions:

FortiADC version 7.0.0 through 7.0.2
FortiADC version 6.2.0 through 6.2.3
FortiADC version 6.1.0 through 6.1.6
FortiADC version 6.0.0 through 6.0.4
FortiADC version 5.4.0 through 5.4.5

The flaw was discovered internally and reported by Gwendal Guégniaud of Fortinet Product Security. Team.

The vendor also addressed several high-severity command injection vulnerabilities in FortiTester, tracked as CVE-2022-35845 (CVSS score of 7.6) that may allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the underlying shell.

“Multiple improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerabilities [CWE-78] in FortiTester may allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the underlying shell.” reads the advisory.

Affected products are:

FortiTester version 7.1.0
FortiTester version 7.0 all versions
FortiTester version 4.0.0 through 4.2.0
FortiTester version 2.3.0 through 3.9.1

The flaws were internally discovered and reported by Wilfried Djettchou of the Fortinet Product Security team.

The vendor did not warn of active exploitation of the above vulnerabilities.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, command injection)

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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”.

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