CVE-2017-14182 Denial of service in Fortinet FortiOS

What is CVE-2017-14182?

CVE-2017-14182 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 27 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.4.0 to 5.4.5 allows an authenticated user to cause the web GUI to be temporarily unresponsive, via passing a specially crafted payload to the 'params' parameter of the JSON web API.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14182?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14182?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-14182 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-2017-14182 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14182 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-663g-ww93-9qmp.