CVE-2022-41328 Fortinet FortiOS Path Traversal

What is CVE-2022-41328?

CVE-2022-41328 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 7 Mar 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability ('path traversal') [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, 7.0.0 through 7.0.9 and before 6.4.11 allows a privileged attacker to read and write files on the underlying Linux system via crafted CLI commands.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-41328?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2022-41328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-41328 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 4 Apr 2023.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-41328 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2022-41328 in the wild since at least 14 Mar 2023.

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-prj2-6g47-x68h.