CVE-2024-35279 Memory corruption in FortiOS

What is CVE-2024-35279?

CVE-2024-35279 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 11 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A stack-based buffer overflow [CWE-121] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.4 through 7.2.8 and version 7.4.0 through 7.4.4 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via crafted UDP packets through the CAPWAP control, provided the attacker were able to evade FortiOS stack protections and provided the fabric service is running on the exposed interface.

Weakness: CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35279?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2024-35279?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-35279 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-35279 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35279 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-8ccx-r52j-39f8.