PSIRT Advisories
FortiOS & FortiProxy - Anti brute-force bypass in administrative interface
Summary
An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in FortiOS & FortiProxy administrative interface may allow an attacker with a valid user account to perform brute-force attacks on other user accounts via injecting valid login sessions.
Affected Products
FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.7
FortiProxy 2.0 all versions
FortiProxy 1.2 all versions
FortiProxy 1.1 all versions
FortiProxy 1.0 all versions
FortiSwitchManager version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2
FortiSwitchManager version 7.0.0 through 7.0.2
FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3
FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.10
FortiOS version 6.4.0 through 6.4.12
FortiOS 6.2 all versions
Solutions
Please upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.2.2 or above
Please upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.0.8 or above
Please upgrade to FortiOS version 7.2.4 or above
Please upgrade to FortiOS version 7.0.11 or above
Please upgrade to FortiOS version 6.4.13 or above
Acknowledgement
Internally discovered and reported by Goutham Rukmasah from Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs .Timeline
2023-03-21: Initial publication