Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2022-40684

TLP:CLEAR

Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Facts

  • Vendor: Fortinet
  • Product: Multiple Products
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 100 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 11 October 2022
  • First known exploitation: 11 October 2022
  • Used in ransomware campaigns (per CISA): Yes
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 1 November 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-288
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 11 October 2022

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD