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Fortinet FortiOS: Information Exposure Through an Error Message (CVE-2021-43206)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Information Exposure Through an Error Message (CVE-2021-43206)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/04/2022
Created
05/17/2022
Added
05/16/2022
Modified
10/18/2023

Description

A server-generated error message containing sensitive information in Fortinet FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.3, 6.4.0 through 6.4.8, 6.2.x, 6.0.x and FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, 2.0.x allows malicious webservers to retrieve a web proxy's client username and IP via same origin HTTP requests triggering proxy-generated HTTP status codes pages.

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-6_0_14
  • fortios-upgrade-6_2_10
  • fortios-upgrade-6_4_8
  • fortios-upgrade-7_0_4

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