Security

A critical flaw affects Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy, patch it now!

Fortinet addressed a critical heap buffer underflow vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy, which can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Fortinet addressed a critical buffer underwrite (‘buffer underflow’) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-25610 (CVSS v3 9.3), that resides in the administrative interface in FortiOS and FortiProxy. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable device and trigger a DoS condition on the GUI, by sending specifically crafted requests.

The vulnerability affects the following products:

  • FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3
  • FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.9
  • FortiOS version 6.4.0 through 6.4.11
  • FortiOS version 6.2.0 through 6.2.12
  • FortiOS 6.0, all versions
  • FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2
  • FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.8
  • FortiProxy version 2.0.0 through 2.0.11
  • FortiProxy 1.2, all versions
  • FortiProxy 1.1, all versions

The security vendor released the following updates to address the issue:

  • FortiOS version 7.4.0 or above
  • FortiOS version 7.2.4 or above
  • FortiOS version 7.0.10 or above
  • FortiOS version 6.4.12 or above
  • FortiOS version 6.2.13 or above
  • FortiProxy version 7.2.3 or above
  • FortiProxy version 7.0.9 or above
  • FortiProxy version 2.0.12 or above
  • FortiOS-6K7K version 7.0.10 or above
  • FortiOS-6K7K version 6.4.12 or above
  • FortiOS-6K7K version 6.2.13 or above

The company announced that it is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting this vulnerability.

The advisory includes a list of models for which the flaw’s exploitation can only trigger a DoS condition.

Fortinet also provides a workaround for the flaw, the company recommends disabling the HTTP/HTTPS administrative interface or limiting the IP addresses that can reach the administrative interface.

The security vendor acknowledged Kai Ni from the Burnaby InfoSec team for reporting the flaw.

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, FortiOS)

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”.

Recent Posts

U.S. Gov imposed Visa restrictions on 13 individuals linked to commercial spyware activity

The U.S. Department of State imposed visa restrictions on 13 individuals allegedly linked to the…

50 mins ago

A cyber attack paralyzed operations at Synlab Italia

A cyber attack has been disrupting operations at Synlab Italia, a leading provider of medical…

2 hours ago

Russia-linked APT28 used post-compromise tool GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 Windows flaw

Russia-linked APT28 group used a previously unknown tool, dubbed GooseEgg, to exploit Windows Print Spooler…

12 hours ago

Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

A financially motivated group named GhostR claims the theft of a sensitive database from World-Check…

19 hours ago

Windows DOS-to-NT flaws exploited to achieve unprivileged rootkit-like capabilities

Researcher demonstrated how to exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows DOS-to-NT path conversion process to achieve…

22 hours ago

A flaw in the Forminator plugin impacts hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites

Japan's CERT warns of a vulnerability in the Forminator WordPress plugin that allows unrestricted file uploads…

1 day ago

This website uses cookies.