CVE-2016-7541 in FortiOS

Summary

Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.

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• Reservation: 09/09/2016
• Disclosure: 03/30/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-99099
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-254 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.8
• EPSS: 0.00228
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7541
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7541
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-7541/