WEB Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Vulnerability -1 (CVE-2024-55591)

Rule ID

1236270

Severity

Critical

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.

Impact

Privilege escalation

Recommendation

Update vendor's patch.

IPS Category

Web threats

IPS Anomaly Group

N/A

IPS Rule Default Action

Deny

References

Keywords

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