CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4948
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
The default configuration of Fortinet Fortigate UTM appliances uses the same Certification Authority certificate and same private key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by leveraging the presence of the Fortinet_CA_SSLProxy certificate in a list of trusted root certification authorities.
Affected configurations
• fortinet fortigate-1000c
• fortinet fortigate-100d
• fortinet fortigate-110c
• fortinet fortigate-1240b
• fortinet fortigate-200b
• fortinet fortigate-20c
• fortinet fortigate-300c
• fortinet fortigate-3040b
• fortinet fortigate-310b
• fortinet fortigate-311b
• fortinet fortigate-3140b
• fortinet fortigate-3240c
• fortinet fortigate-3810a
• fortinet fortigate-3950b
• fortinet fortigate-40c
• fortinet fortigate-5001a-sw
• fortinet fortigate-5001b
• fortinet fortigate-5020
• fortinet fortigate-5060
• fortinet fortigate-50b
• fortinet fortigate-5101c
• fortinet fortigate-5140b
• fortinet fortigate-600c
• fortinet fortigate-60c
• fortinet fortigate-620b
• fortinet fortigate-800c
• fortinet fortigate-80c
• fortinet fortigate-voice-80c
• fortinet fortigaterugged-100c
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/87048 osvdb.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111708 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56382 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://osvdb.org/87048 osvdb.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111708 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56382 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry