Fortinet FortiADC up to 7.1.0 certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Fortinet FortiADC up to 6.0.4/6.1.6/6.2.6/7.0.2/7.1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in certificate validation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-50178. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Fortinet FortiADC up to 6.0.4/6.1.6/6.2.6/7.0.2/7.1.0. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiADC 7.4.0, 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, 7.1 all versions, 7.0 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.1 all versions and 6.0 all versions may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the communication channel between the device and various remote servers such as private SDN connectors and FortiToken Cloud.

The advisory is shared for download at fortiguard.fortinet.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-50178 since 12/05/2023. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

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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Vendor

• Fortinet

Name

• FortiADC

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.2
• 6.2.3
• 6.2.4
• 6.2.5
• 6.2.6
• 7.0
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.1.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.fortinet.com/

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