CVE-2023-29175 Weak cryptography in FortiOS

What is CVE-2023-29175?

CVE-2023-29175 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 13 Jun 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiOS 6.2 all versions, 6.4 all versions, 7.0.0 through 7.0.10, 7.2.0 and FortiProxy 1.2 all versions, 2.0 all versions, 7.0.0 through 7.0.9, 7.2.0 through 7.2.3 may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the communication channel between the vulnerable device and the remote FortiGuard's map server.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-29175?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2023-29175?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-29175 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-29175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-29175 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-4mcw-v943-57xw.