Security News > 2025 > January > 48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack

Despite last week’s confirmation of and warnings about long-standing exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, a critical vulnerability affecting Fortinet Fortigate firewalls, too many vulnerable devices are still accessible from the Internet and open to attack: over 48,000, according to data from the Shadowserver Foundation. CVE-2024-55591 exploitation On January 10, Artic Wolf Labs researchers outlined an attack campaign targeting FortiGate firewalls with management interfaces exposed on the public internet by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability. It involved attackers scanning … More → The post 48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack appeared first on Help Net Security.
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DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2025-01-14 | CVE-2024-55591 | Unspecified vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios and Fortiproxy 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. | 9.8 |