Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2019-5588 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	108618
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2019-5588
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 24 2019 12:00AM
Updated:	May 24 2019 12:00AM
Credit:	Nathan Hardy from Sogeti Luxembourg.
Vulnerable:	Fortinet Fortios 6.0.4 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.3 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.2 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.1 Fortinet Fortios 6.0
Not Vulnerable:	Fortinet Fortios 6.2 Fortinet Fortios 6.0.5

Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2019-5588 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 through 6.0.4 are vulnerable.

Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2019-5588 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI.

Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2019-5588 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2019-5588 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• FortiOS Homepage (Fortinet)
  
• FG-IR-19-03: FortiOS reflected XSS in the SSL VPN web portal error page paramete (Fortinet)