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Fortinet FortiOS: Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-2022-39948)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-2022-39948)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2023
Created
02/28/2023
Added
02/27/2023
Modified
05/17/2024

Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, 7.0.0 through 7.0.7, 6.4 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.0 all versions and FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.6, 2.0 all versions, 1.2 all versions may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the communication channel between the FortiOS/FortiProxy device and remote servers hosting threat feeds (when the latter are configured as Fabric connectors in FortiOS/FortiProxy)

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-7_0_8
  • fortios-upgrade-7_2_4

References

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