A vulnerability was found in Fortinet FortiMail up to 5.1/5.2.9/5.3.9. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Webmail Login. The manipulation as part of a HTTP Requests leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Reflected). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Fortinet FortiMail 5.1 and earlier, 5.2.0 through 5.2.9, and 5.3.0 through 5.3.9 customized pre-authentication webmail login page allows attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted HTTP requests.

The bug was discovered 10/13/2017. The weakness was published 10/26/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at fortiguard.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-7732 since 04/12/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 13 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Fortinet

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• FortiMail

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2.0
• 5.2.1
• 5.2.2
• 5.2.3
• 5.2.4
• 5.2.5
• 5.2.6
• 5.2.7
• 5.2.8
• 5.2.9
• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4
• 5.3.5
• 5.3.6
• 5.3.7
• 5.3.8
• 5.3.9

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• commercial

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