CVE-2023-48784 Code injection in FortiOS

What is CVE-2023-48784?

CVE-2023-48784 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 9 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A use of externally-controlled format string vulnerability [CWE-134] in FortiOS version 7.4.1 and below, version 7.2.7 and below, 7.0 all versions, 6.4 all versions command line interface may allow a local privileged attacker with super-admin profile and CLI access to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-48784?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2023-48784?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-48784 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2023-48784 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-48784 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-9669-pjx9-x524.