CVE-2024-55591

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Added 2025-01-14Remediation due 2025-01-21

A public exploit / detection template exists

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An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.19 and 7.2.0 through 7.2.12 allows a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

9.8

CVSS

98.3%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

100th

EPSS percentile

2025-01-14

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-288

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
fortinet	fortiproxy	>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.20
fortinet	fortiproxy	>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.13
fortinet	fortios	>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.17

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2024-55591