vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2019-17656)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2021
Added
Apr 21, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the HTTPD daemon of FortiOS 6.0.10 and below, 6.2.2 and below and FortiProxy 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.2.9 and below, 2.0.0 and below may allow an authenticated remote attacker to crash the service by sending a malformed PUT request to the server. Fortinet is not aware of any successful exploitation of this vulnerability that would lead to code execution.

Solution

fortios-upgrade-latest
Title
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