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Fortinet urges customers to urgently patch their appliances against a critical authentication bypass FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager vulnerability exploited in attacks. The company released security updates to address the flaw last week and it also advised customers in private alerts to disable remote management user interfaces on affected devices "With the utmost urgency" to block attacks if they can't immediately patch.

Ai researchers have released a PoC exploit for CVE-2022-40684, the authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Fortinet's firewalls and secure web gateways, and soon after exploitation attempts started rising. " , the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began tracking exploit attempts targeting CVE-2022-40684 on our network of over 4 million protected websites," Wordfence threat analyst Ram Gall shared.

A proof-of-concept exploit code has been made available for the recently disclosed critical security flaw affecting Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager, making it imperative that users move quickly to apply the patches. "FortiOS exposes a management web portal that allows a user to configure the system," Horizon3.

Proof-of-concept exploit code is now available for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Fortinet's FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager appliances.Ai security researchers released a proof-of-concept exploit and a technical root cause analysis for this vulnerability today, following an announcement that a CVE-2022-40684 PoC will be made available this week.

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Upgrade FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 to version 7.2.2. Upgrade FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 to version 7.0.7 or above.

FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1. FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6.

Fortinet has confirmed today that a critical authentication bypass security vulnerability patched last week is being exploited in the wild. The security flaw is an auth bypass on the administrative interface that enables remote threat actors to log into FortiGate firewalls, FortiProxy web proxies, and FortiSwitch Manager on-premise management instances.

Fortinet has privately warned its customers of a security flaw affecting FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies that could potentially allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on susceptible devices. The issue impacts the following versions, and has been addressed in FortiOS versions 7.0.7 and 7.2.2, and FortiProxy version 7.0.7 released this week -.