Security News > 2023 > February > Fortinet Issues Patches for 40 Flaws Affecting FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAC, and FortiProxy
Fortinet has released security updates to address 40 vulnerabilities in its software lineup, including FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAS, and FortiProxy, among others.
Two of the 40 flaws are rated Critical, 15 are rated High, 22 are rated Medium, and one is rated Low in severity.
Patches have been released in FortiNAC versions 7.2.0, 9.1.8, 9.1.8, and 9.1.8.
The second flaw of note is a set of stack-based buffer overflow in FortiWeb's proxy daemon that could enable an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via specifically crafted HTTP requests.
CVE-2021-42756 affects the below versions of FortiWeb, with fixes available in versions FortiWeb 6.0.8, 6.1.3, 6.2.7, 6.3.17, and 7.0.0 -.
Both the flaws were internally discovered and reported by its product security team, Fortinet said.
News URL
https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/fortinet-issues-patches-for-40-flaws.html
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-16 | CVE-2021-42756 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities [CWE-121] in the proxy daemon of FortiWeb 5.x all versions, 6.0.7 and below, 6.1.2 and below, 6.2.6 and below, 6.3.16 and below, 6.4 all versions may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via specifically crafted HTTP requests. | 9.8 |