PSIRT Advisories

FortiWeb - Path traversal in API controller

Summary

A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in the API of FortiWeb may allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the underlying filesystem via specially crafted web requests.

Affected Products

FortiWeb version 7.0.0 through 7.0.2
FortiWeb version 6.3.6 through 6.3.20
FortiWeb 6.4 all versions

Solutions

Please upgrade to FortiWeb version 7.0.3 or above
Please upgrade to FortiWeb version 6.3.21 or above

Acknowledgement

Internally discovered and reported by Gwendal Guégniaud of the Fortinet Product Security team.