CVE-2022-42469 Security feature bypass in FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-42469?

CVE-2022-42469 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 11 Apr 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A permissive list of allowed inputs vulnerability [CWE-183] in FortiGate version 7.2.3 and below, version 7.0.9 and below Policy-based NGFW Mode may allow an authenticated SSL-VPN user to bypass the policy via bookmarks in the web portal.

Weakness: CWE-183

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42469?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42469?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-42469 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-42469 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42469 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-gxgj-6564-3p8j.