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Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2022-45861: Access of NULL pointer in SSLVPNd

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Mar 7, 2023

Added

Mar 16, 2023

Modified

Jun 23, 2026

Description

An access of uninitialized pointer vulnerability [CWE-824] in the SSL-VPN portal of FortiOS & FortiProxy may allow a remote authenticated attacker to crash the sslvpn daemon via an HTTP GET request.

Solution

fortios-upgrade-latest

References

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-477
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-48714
CVE-2022-45861
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-45861
CWE-824
EUVD-EUVD-2022-48714

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