CVE-2024-50568 Auth bypass in FortiOS

What is CVE-2024-50568?

CVE-2024-50568 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 10 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A channel accessible by non-endpoint vulnerability [CWE-300] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.7 and before 7.0.14 & FortiProxy version 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and before 7.0.16 allows an unauthenticated attacker with the knowledge of device specific data to spoof the identity of a downstream device of the security fabric via crafted TCP requests.

Weakness: CWE-300

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50568?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50568?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50568 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2024-50568 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50568 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-q6xx-gv82-hc4m.