CVE-2023-28002 Security feature bypass in FortiOS

What is CVE-2023-28002?

CVE-2023-28002 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 14 Nov 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper validation of integrity check value vulnerability [CWE-354] in FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, 7.0.0 through 7.0.12, 6.4 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.0 all versions and VMs may allow a local attacker with admin privileges to boot a malicious image on the device and bypass the filesystem integrity check in place.

Weakness: CWE-354

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28002?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2023-28002?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28002 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-28002 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28002 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-m6ww-2p98-rfp9.