CVE-2022-27491

Summary

CVECVE-2022-27491
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-06 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-09 02:26:00 UTC
DescriptionA improper verification of source of a communication channel in Fortinet FortiOS with IPS engine version 7.201 through 7.214, 7.001 through 7.113, 6.001 through 6.121, 5.001 through 5.258 and before 4.086 allows a remote and unauthenticated attacker to trigger the sending of "blocked page" HTML data to an arbitrary victim via crafted TCP requests, potentially flooding the victim.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fortinet Fortios All All All All
Operating System Fortinet Fortios 7.2.0 All All All
Operating System Fortinet Fortios All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PSIRT Advisories | FortiGuard CONFIRM fortiguard.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160704 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for istio (ELSA-2023-12357)
  • 160705 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for istio (ELSA-2023-12355)
  • 160706 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2023-23649)
  • 160707 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for istio (ELSA-2023-12356)
  • 160708 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for istio (ELSA-2023-12354)
  • 43919 FortiOS Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Middlebox Reflection Vulnerability (FG-IR-22-073)
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