An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiManager 7.0.1 and below, 6.4.6 and below; FortiAnalyzer 7.0.2 and below,
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 16/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.47% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiManager 7.0.1 and below, 6.4.6 and below; FortiAnalyzer 7.0.2 and below, 6.4.7 and below; FortiOS 6.2.x and 6.0.x; FortiSandbox 4.0.x, 3.2.x and 3.1.x may allow a network adjacent and unauthenticated attacker to man-in-the-middle the communication between the listed products and some external peers.
- Published
- Sep 1, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 40th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-297
Report tools
Action score
16
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 16 / 40 · 4.2 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 4.2
- CNA · fortinet
- 5.4
- 1.2 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No fixed version yet
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| fortinet | fortianalyzer | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortianalyzer |
| fortinet | fortimanager | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimanager |
| fortinet | fortisandbox | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortisandbox |
| fortinet | fortios | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- fortinet fortios5.6.10 and later · up to 5.6.14 inclusive
- fortinet fortios6.0.0 and later · up to 6.0.17 inclusive
- fortinet fortios6.2.0 and later · up to 6.2.15 inclusive
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (fortinet). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
- 7.0.0 and later · up to and including 7.0.2affected · semver
- 6.4.0 and later · up to and including 6.4.7affected · semver
- 6.2.0 and later · up to and including 6.2.11affected · semver
- 6.0.0 and later · up to and including 6.0.12affected · semver
Fortinet FortiManager
- 7.0.0 and later · up to and including 7.0.1affected · semver
- 6.4.0 and later · up to and including 6.4.6affected · semver
- 6.2.0 and later · up to and including 6.2.11affected · semver
- 6.0.0 and later · up to and including 6.0.12affected · semver
Fortinet FortiSandbox
- 4.0.0 and later · up to and including 4.0.2affected · semver
- 3.2.0 and later · up to and including 3.2.4affected · semver
- 3.1.0 and later · up to and including 3.1.5affected · semver
- 3.0.0 and later · up to and including 3.0.7affected · semver
Same product
fortinet: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
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- CVE-2021-32589A Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in FortiManager version 7.0.0, version 6.4.5 and below, version 6.2.7 and below, version 6.0.10 and42Plan
- CVE-2024-50563A weak authentication in Fortinet FortiManager Cloud, FortiAnalyzer versions 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.1 through 7.4.3, FortiAnalyzer Cloud v39Monitor
- CVE-2024-48886A weak authentication in Fortinet FortiOS versions 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, 7.2.0 through 7.2.8, 7.0.0 through 7.0.15, 6.4.0 through 6.4.15, For39Monitor
- CVE-2024-35276A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, FortiAnalyzer 7.2.0 through 7.2.5, FortiAnalyzer 39Monitor
- CVE-2024-23666A client-side enforcement of server-side security in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer-BigData
at least version 7.4.0 and 7.2.0 through 7.2.6 and 7.036Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Adjacent
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-297 · Improper Validation of Certificate with Host MismatchCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.