CVE-2022-40675 Weak cryptography in FortiNAC

What is CVE-2022-40675?

CVE-2022-40675 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiNAC, published on 16 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Some cryptographic issues in Fortinet FortiNAC versions 9.4.0 through 9.4.1, 9.2.0 through 9.2.7, 9.1.0 through 9.1.8, 8.8.0 through 8.8.11, 8.7.0 through 8.7.6, 8.6.0 through 8.6.5, 8.5.0 through 8.5.4, 8.3.7 may allow an attacker to decrypt and forge protocol communication messages.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40675?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortinac, Fortinet Fortinac-F.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40675?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40675 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-40675 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40675 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiNAC

• CVE-2022-39952 Path traversal in FortiNAC Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-33299 Deserialization in FortiNAC Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26117 Hardcoded credentials in Fortinet FortiNAC High 8.8
• CVE-2022-38375 Missing authorization in FortiNAC High 8.6
• CVE-2022-39953 Privilege escalation in FortiNAC High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-66q7-rr79-fw65.