Fortinet addressed a critical heap buffer underflow vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy, which can lead to arbitrary code execution.
Fortinet addressed a critical buffer underwrite (‘buffer underflow’) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-25610 (CVSS v3 9.3), that resides in the administrative interface in FortiOS and FortiProxy. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable device and trigger a DoS condition on the GUI, by sending specifically crafted requests.
The vulnerability affects the following products:
- FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3
- FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.9
- FortiOS version 6.4.0 through 6.4.11
- FortiOS version 6.2.0 through 6.2.12
- FortiOS 6.0, all versions
- FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2
- FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.8
- FortiProxy version 2.0.0 through 2.0.11
- FortiProxy 1.2, all versions
- FortiProxy 1.1, all versions
The security vendor released the following updates to address the issue:
- FortiOS version 7.4.0 or above
- FortiOS version 7.2.4 or above
- FortiOS version 7.0.10 or above
- FortiOS version 6.4.12 or above
- FortiOS version 6.2.13 or above
- FortiProxy version 7.2.3 or above
- FortiProxy version 7.0.9 or above
- FortiProxy version 2.0.12 or above
- FortiOS-6K7K version 7.0.10 or above
- FortiOS-6K7K version 6.4.12 or above
- FortiOS-6K7K version 6.2.13 or above
The company announced that it is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting this vulnerability.
The advisory includes a list of models for which the flaw’s exploitation can only trigger a DoS condition.
Fortinet also provides a workaround for the flaw, the company recommends disabling the HTTP/HTTPS administrative interface or limiting the IP addresses that can reach the administrative interface.
The security vendor acknowledged Kai Ni from the Burnaby InfoSec team for reporting the flaw.
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