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Fortinet Fortigate Path traversal vulnerability (FG-IR-21-181)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209731

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Synopsis

Fortinet Firewall is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of Fortigate installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FG-IR-21-181 advisory.

 - A relative path traversal [CWE-23] vulnerabiltiy in FortiOS versions 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 and FortiProxy verison 7.0.0 may allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized attacker to inject path traversal character sequences to disclose sensitive information of the server via the GET request of the login page.
 (CVE-2021-41024)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Please upgrade to FortiOS version 7.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-181

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209731

File Name: fortigate_FG-IR-21-181.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 10/26/2024

Updated: 10/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fortinet:fortios

Required KB Items: Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41024

IAVA: 2021-A-0574-S