CVE-2022-29053 Weak cryptography in Fortinet FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-29053?

CVE-2022-29053 is a low-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 6 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A missing cryptographic steps vulnerability [CWE-325] in the functions that encrypt the keytab files in FortiOS version 7.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 and below 7.0.0 may allow an attacker in possession of the encrypted file to decipher it.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29053?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2022-29053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-29053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29053 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-2546-c9vw-hgfw.