Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-35846 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in Fortinet Fortitester

CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

fortinet

CWE-307

critical

NVD

Published: 2022-10-18

Updated: 2022-10-20

Summary

An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in FortiTester Telnet port 2.3.0 through 3.9.1, 4.0.0 through 4.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.1.0 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to guess the credentials of an admin user via a brute force attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Fortinet Fortinet Fortitester 7.0.0 Fortinet Fortitester 7.1.0 Fortinet Fortitester 4.0.0 Fortinet Fortitester 4.1.0 Fortinet Fortitester 4.1.1 Fortinet Fortitester 4.2.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.3.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.4.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.4.1 Fortinet Fortitester 2.5.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.6.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.7.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.8.0 Fortinet Fortitester 2.9.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.0.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.1.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.2.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.3.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.3.1 Fortinet Fortitester 3.4.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.5.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.5.1 Fortinet Fortitester 3.6.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.7.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.7.1 Fortinet Fortitester 3.8.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.9.0 Fortinet Fortitester 3.9.1	28

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-244