CVE-2022-42472 Other in FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-42472?

CVE-2022-42472 is a medium-severity 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 improper neutralization of crlf sequences in http headers ('http response splitting') vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.2, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.8, FortiOS 6.4.0 through 6.4.12, FortiOS 6.2 all versions, FortiOS 6.0 all versions, FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.7, FortiProxy 2.0.0 through 2.0.10, FortiProxy 1.2 all versions, FortiProxy 01.02 all versions, FortiProxy 1.1 all versions, FortiProxy 01.01 all versions may allow an authenticated and remote attacker to perform an HTTP request splitting attack which gives attackers control of the remaining headers and body of the response.

Weakness: CWE-74, CWE-113

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42472?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42472?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-42472 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-42472 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42472 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-2c29-h3hm-8953.