Fortinet

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2022
Fortinet fixed 16 vulnerabilities, 6 rated as high severity

Fortinet addressed 16 vulnerabilities in some of the company’s products, six flaws received a ‘high’ severity rate. One of the high-severity issues is a persistent XSS, tracked as CVE-2022-38374, in Log pages of FortiADC. The root cause of the issue is an improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability [CWE-79] in FortiADC. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2022
Over 17000 Fortinet devices exposed online are very likely vulnerable to CVE-2022-40684

Fortinet confirmed that many systems are still vulnerable to attacks exploiting the CVE-2022-40684 zero-day vulnerability. Fortinet is urging customers to address the recently discovered CVE-2022-40684 zero-day vulnerability. Unfortunately, the number of devices that have yet to be patched is still high. “After multiple notifications from Fortinet over the past week, there are still a significant number of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
Experts released PoC exploit code for critical bug CVE-2022-40684 in Fortinet products

Experts released the PoC exploit code for the authentication bypass flaw CVE-2022-40684 in FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6) in FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies has been released online. The vulnerability impacts FortiOS versions from 7.0.0 to 7.0.6 and from […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2022
CVE-2022-40684 flaw in Fortinet products is being exploited in the wild

Fortinet has confirmed that the recently disclosed critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2022-40684) is being exploited in the wild. Last week, Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to log into vulnerable devices. “An authentication bypass using an alternate […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2022
Fortinet urges customers to immediately fix a critical authentication bypass flaw in FortiGate and FortiProxy

Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to log into vulnerable devices. “An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel [CWE-88] in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2022
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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2021
US, UK and Australia warn of Iran-linked APTs exploiting Fortinet, Microsoft Exchange flaws

U.S., U.K. and Australia warn that Iran-linked APT groups exploiting Fortinet and Microsoft Exchange flaws to target critical infrastructure. A joint advisory released by government agencies (the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)) in the U.S., U.K., and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2021
Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely

Fortinet addresses a command injection vulnerability that can allow attackers to take complete control of servers running vulnerable FortiWeb WAF installs. An authenticated attacker could execute arbitrary commands as the root user on the underlying system via the SAML server configuration page. Experts pointed out that the flaw could be chained with an authentication bypass flaw that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2021
A bug in Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer allows unauthenticated hackers to run code as root

Fortinet fixes a serious bug in its FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code as root. Fortinet has released security updates to address a serious bug, tracked as CVE-2021-32589, affecting FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions. The CVE-2021-32589 vulnerability is a Use After Free issue that an attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2021
Flaws in FortiWeb WAF expose Fortinet devices to remote hack

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Fortinet has recently addressed a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2021-22123) affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF), a remote, authenticated attacker can exploit it to execute arbitrary commands via the SAML server […]