Fortinet has launched fixes to deal with 15 safety flaws, together with one vital vulnerability impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy that might allow a risk actor to take management of affected programs.
The problem, tracked as CVE-2023-25610, is rated 9.3 out of 10 for severity and was internally found and reported by its safety groups.
“A buffer underwrite (‘buffer underflow’) vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy administrative interface might permit a distant unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the machine and/or carry out a DoS on the GUI, through particularly crafted requests,” Fortinet stated in an advisory.
Underflow bugs, additionally referred to as buffer underruns, happen when the enter information is shorter than the reserved house, inflicting unpredictable habits or leakage of delicate information from reminiscence.
Different potential penalties embody reminiscence corruption that might both be weaponized to induce a crash or execute arbitrary code.
Fortinet stated it isn’t conscious of any malicious exploitation makes an attempt in opposition to the flaw. However on condition that prior flaws in software program have come beneath lively abuse within the wild, it is important that customers transfer rapidly to use the patches.
The next variations of FortiOS and FortiProxy are impacted by the vulnerability –
- FortiOS model 7.2.0 via 7.2.3
- FortiOS model 7.0.0 via 7.0.9
- FortiOS model 6.4.0 via 6.4.11
- FortiOS model 6.2.0 via 6.2.12
- FortiOS 6.0 all variations
- FortiProxy model 7.2.0 via 7.2.2
- FortiProxy model 7.0.0 via 7.0.8
- FortiProxy model 2.0.0 via 2.0.11
- FortiProxy 1.2 all variations
- FortiProxy 1.1 all variations
Fixes can be found in FortiOS variations 6.2.13, 6.4.12, 7.0.10, 7.2.4, and seven.4.0; FortiOS-6K7K variations 6.2.13, 6.4.12, and seven.0.10; and FortiProxy variations 2.0.12, 7.0.9, and seven.0.9.
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As workarounds, Fortinet is recommending that customers both disable the HTTP/HTTPS administrative interface or restrict IP addresses that may attain it.
The disclosure comes weeks after the community safety firm issued fixes for 40 vulnerabilities, two of that are rated Crucial and influence FortiNAC (CVE-2022-39952) and FortiWeb (CVE-2021-42756) merchandise.
