CVE-2005-4570 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Fortinet FortiOS, FortiClient, and FortiManager by sending malformed IKEv1 packets.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-4570?
CVE-2005-4570 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Dec 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementations in Fortinet FortiOS 2.50, 2.80 and 3.0, FortiClient 2.0,; and FortiManager 2.80 and 3.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (termination of a process that is automatically restarted) via IKE packets with invalid values of certain IPSec attributes, as demonstrated by the PROTOS ISAKMP Test Suite for IKEv1. NOTE: due to the lack of details in the vendor advisory, it is unclear which of CVE-2005-3666, CVE-2005-3667, and/or CVE-2005-3668 this issue applies to.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4570?
How do I fix CVE-2005-4570?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4570 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-4570 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4570 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j7p2-mjw4-64cc.