CVE-2022-40684 — Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2022-40684: Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Fortinet |
| Product | Multiple Products |
| Date added | 2022-10-11 |
| Due date | 2022-11-01 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Known |
Description
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.
Required action (CISA)
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-377; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40684
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-288. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40684
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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