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Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager authentication bypass.

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Disclosed
Oct 10, 2022
Created
Oct 19, 2022

Description

This module exploits an authentication bypass vulnerability
in the Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager API
to gain access to a chosen account. And then add a SSH key to the
authorized_keys file of the chosen account, allowing
to login to the system with the chosen account.

Successful exploitation results in remote code execution.

Authors

Heyder Andrade @HeyderAndrade
Zach Hanley @hacks_zach

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/http/fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684
    msf exploit(fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684) > exploit
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