CVE-2022-42474 Path traversal in FortiOS

What is CVE-2022-42474?

CVE-2022-42474 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 13 Jun 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, version 7.0.0 through 7.0.9 and before 6.4.12, FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.7, FortiSwitchManager version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and before 7.0.1 allows an privileged attacker to delete arbitrary directories from the filesystem through crafted HTTP requests.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42474?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy, Fortinet Fortiswitchmanager.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42474?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-42474 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-2022-42474 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42474 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-r533-5559-j96c.