vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS: (CVE-2024-55591)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 14, 2025
Added
Jan 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.19 and 7.2.0 through 7.2.12 allows a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

Solution

fortios-upgrade-7_0_17
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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