CVE-2024-33509 Security feature bypass in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2024-33509?

CVE-2024-33509 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 9 Jul 2024. 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 FortiWeb 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0 all versions, 6.4 all versions and 6.3 all versions may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker in a Man-in-the-Middle position to decipher and/or tamper with the communication channel between the device and different endpoints used to fetch data for Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-33509?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2024-33509?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-33509 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-33509 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-33509 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortiweb

• CVE-2025-25257 Fortinet FortiWeb SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2025-64446 Fortinet FortiWeb Path Traversal Exploited Critical 9.4
• CVE-2025-58034 Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection Exploited Medium 6.7
• CVE-2020-29015 SQL injection in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-29016 Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8

All Fortinet Fortiweb vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-49fh-c382-5964.