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Fortinet FortiOS: Observable Discrepancy (CVE-2018-9192)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Sep 6, 2019
Modified
May 28, 2026

Description

A plaintext recovery of encrypted messages or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack on RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 encryption may be possible without knowledge of the server's private key. Fortinet FortiOS 5.4.6 to 5.4.9, 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 are vulnerable by such attack under SSL Deep Inspection feature when CPx being used.

Solution

fortios-upgrade-latest
Title
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