CVE-2020-29013 Denial of service in Fortinet FortiSandbox

What is CVE-2020-29013?

CVE-2020-29013 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fortinet Fortisandbox, published on 6 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper input validation vulnerability in the sniffer interface of FortiSandbox before 3.2.2 may allow an authenticated attacker to silently halt the sniffer via specifically crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-29013?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortisandbox.

How do I fix CVE-2020-29013?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-29013 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-2020-29013 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-29013 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortisandbox

• CVE-2026-25089 Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-39808 Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-26083 Missing authorization in FortiSandbox Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-39813 Path traversal in FortiSandbox Critical 9.1
• CVE-2020-29011 SQL injection in Fortinet FortiSandbox High 8.8

All Fortinet Fortisandbox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-85hj-p83w-mp25.