Fortinet Security Updates – 07 May 2023

Fortinet has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities across multiple products.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to gain access, execute code, disclose information, or trigger cross-site scripting attacks on the affected products.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

1. FortiADC – Command Injection Vulnerability in External Resource Module (CVE-2023-27999):

  • CVSS: 7.6
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Gain Access

2. FortiOS & FortiProxy – Out-of-bound-write in sslvpnd (CVE-2023-22640):

  • CVSS: 7.1
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Gain Access

Affected Products:

  • FortiNAC.
  • FortiADC.
  • FortiOS.
  • FortiProxy.
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2023-27999
  • CVE-2023-27993
  • CVE-2022-45858
  • CVE-2023-22637
  • CVE-2022-45860
  • CVE-2022-45859
  • CVE-2023-26203
  • CVE-2022-43950
  • CVE-2023-22640
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy the patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

Fortinet Security Advisory

References