CVE-2022-23446 Denial of service in Fortinet FortiEDR

What is CVE-2022-23446?

CVE-2022-23446 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fortinet FortiEDR, published on 6 Apr 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Fortinet FortiEDR version 5.0.3 and earlier allows attacker to make the whole application unresponsive via changing its root directory access permission.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-23446?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiedr.

How do I fix CVE-2022-23446?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-23446 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-2022-23446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiEDR

• CVE-2022-23441 Hardcoded credentials in Fortinet FortiEDR Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-23440 Hardcoded credentials in Fortinet FortiEDR High 7.8
• CVE-2023-33303 Auth bypass in FortiEDR High 7.7
• CVE-2022-29057 Cross-site scripting in Fortinet FortiEDR Medium 5.4
• CVE-2022-39949 Security feature bypass in Fortinet FortiEDR Medium 4.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r8jj-pf8x-383m.