# CVE-2013-1414: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to modify settings, policies, or restart FortiGate firewalls via CSRF.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jul 2013
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6fwq-897c-7pmp

## What is CVE-2013-1414?

CVE-2013-1414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 8 Jul 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS on FortiGate firewall devices before 4.3.13 and 5.x before 5.0.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify (1) settings or (2) policies, or (3) restart the device via a rebootme action to system/maintenance/shutdown.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1414?

It affects 30 products.


Products: Fortinet Fortigate-1000c, Fortinet Fortigate-100d, Fortinet Fortigate-110c, Fortinet Fortigate-1240b, Fortinet Fortigate-200b, Fortinet Fortigate-20c, Fortinet Fortigate-300c, Fortinet Fortigate-3040b, Fortinet Fortigate-310b, Fortinet Fortigate-311b, Fortinet Fortigate-3140b, Fortinet Fortigate-3240c, Fortinet Fortigate-3810a, Fortinet Fortigate-3950b, Fortinet Fortigate-40c, Fortinet Fortigate-5001a-Sw, Fortinet Fortigate-5001b, Fortinet Fortigate-5020, Fortinet Fortigate-5060, Fortinet Fortigate-50b and 10 more.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-1414?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1414 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-1414 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1414 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Fortigate Firewalls - Cross-Site Request Forgery (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

- [CVE-2012-4948](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4948/): Weak cryptography in n/a (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-1414 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-1414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 8 Jul 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1414 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fortinet Fortios. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1414/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1414/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1414
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1414
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1414

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1414/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.