CVE-2022-41335 Path traversal in FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-41335?

CVE-2022-41335 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 16 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2, 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 and before 6.4.10, FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0.0 through 7.0.7 and before 2.0.10, FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0 and before 7.0.0 allows an authenticated attacker to read and write files on the underlying Linux system via crafted HTTP requests.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-41335?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy, Fortinet Fortiswitchmanager.

How do I fix CVE-2022-41335?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-41335 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2022-41335 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-41335 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
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Also known as GHSA-gjq5-3p29-m546.