CVE-2023-28001 Auth bypass in FortiOS

What is CVE-2023-28001?

CVE-2023-28001 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 11 Jul 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An insufficient session expiration in Fortinet FortiOS 7.0.0 - 7.0.12 and 7.2.0 - 7.2.4 allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via reusing the session of a deleted user in the REST API.

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28001?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2023-28001?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28001 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2023-28001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28001 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-97gq-c59q-7wh4.