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Fortinet Fortigate - Arbitrary read/write vulnerability in administrative interface (FG-IR-22-391)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171852

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Synopsis

Fortinet Firewall is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of Fortigate installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FG-IR-22-391 advisory.

 - A relative path traversal vulnerability[CWE-23] in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager may allow an authenticated attacker to read and write files on the underlying Linux system via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. (CVE-2022-41335)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Fortigate version 6.2.13 / 6.4.11 / 7.0.9 / 7.2.3 or later.

See Also

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-391

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171852

File Name: fortigate_FG-IR-22-391.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 2/23/2023

Updated: 2/28/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41335

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:fortinet:fortiproxy

Required KB Items: Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41335