CVE-2021-44170 Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiProxy, FortiOS

What is CVE-2021-44170?

CVE-2021-44170 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 18 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] in the command line interpreter of FortiOS before 7.0.4 and FortiProxy before 2.0.8 may allow an authenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specially crafted command line arguments.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-44170?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2021-44170?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-44170 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2021-44170 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-44170 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-h85f-qmh7-qh6m.