CVE-2022-40684

2022-10-1800:00:00

attackerkb.com

669

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.7%

JSON

An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel [CWE-288] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.6, FortiProxy version 7.2.0 and version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and FortiSwitchManager version 7.2.0 and 7.0.0 allows an unauthenticated atttacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Recent assessments:

rbowes-r7 at October 14, 2022 9:39pm UTC reported:

A vulnerability lets you send requests to the backend API service that appear to be coming from a trusted frontend application. As a result, you can call any REST API without authentication, which is pretty bad considering this is a security appliance.

carlosevieira at October 10, 2022 5:26pm UTC reported:

Assessed Attacker Value: 5
Assessed Attacker Value: 5Assessed Attacker Value: 5