CVE-2021-24017 Auth bypass in Fortinet FortiManager

What is CVE-2021-24017?

CVE-2021-24017 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimanager, published on 30 Sep 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper authentication in Fortinet FortiManager version 6.4.3 and below, 6.2.6 and below allows attacker to assign arbitrary Policy and Object modules via crafted requests to the request handler.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24017?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortimanager.

How do I fix CVE-2021-24017?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24017 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2021-24017 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24017 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortimanager

• CVE-2024-47575 Fortinet FortiManager Missing Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-3613 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6695 Security feature bypass in Fortinet FortiManager Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-17654 Cross-site request forgery in Fortinet FortiManager High 8.8
• CVE-2015-3611 Command injection in n/a High 8.8

All Fortinet Fortimanager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rgxm-gc8m-pfh9.