CVE-2016-7541 Security feature bypass in FortiOS

What is CVE-2016-7541?

CVE-2016-7541 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 30 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.

Weakness: CWE-254

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7541?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7541?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7541 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-7541 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7541 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

• CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-55591 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-42475 Fortinet FortiOS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.3

All Fortinet Fortios vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5qrm-hvcf-q4hg.