VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-55591

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability94.35%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2025-01-14
Last modified2026-08-05
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Fortinet / FortiOS and FortiProxy

Description

An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.19 and 7.2.0 through 7.2.12 allows a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

Weakness classification

  • psirt@fortinet.com: CWE-288
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references