CVE-2023-44250 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2023-44250?

CVE-2023-44250 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 10 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper privilege management vulnerability [CWE-269] in a Fortinet FortiOS HA cluster version 7.4.0 through 7.4.1 and 7.2.5 and in a FortiProxy HA cluster version 7.4.0 through 7.4.1 allows an authenticated attacker to perform elevated actions via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-44250?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2023-44250?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-44250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-44250 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-44250 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-mr34-2x5p-4cw8.