# CVE-2014-3115: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions via CSRF in the FortiWeb web administration console, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/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 May 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7qxv-9465-xvp7

## What is CVE-2014-3115?

CVE-2014-3115 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 8 May 2014. 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 the web administration console in Fortinet FortiWeb before 5.2.0 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via system/config/adminadd and other unspecified vectors.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3115?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fortinet Fortiweb.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-3115?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3115 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2014-3115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortiweb

- [CVE-2025-25257](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-25257/): Fortinet FortiWeb SQL Injection (critical 9.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-64446](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-64446/): Fortinet FortiWeb Path Traversal (critical 9.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-58034](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-58034/): Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection (medium 6.7, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2020-29015](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-29015/): SQL injection in Fortinet FortiWeb (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-29016](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-29016/): Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiWeb (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3115 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-3115 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 8 May 2014. 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-2014-3115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fortinet Fortiweb. 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-2014-3115/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3115/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3115
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3115
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3115

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