CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4948

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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