CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-36171
8.1 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-338
Description
The use of a cryptographically weak pseudo-random number generator in the password reset feature of FortiPortal before 6.0.6 may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to predict parts of or the whole newly generated password within a given time frame.
Affected configurations
• fortinet fortiportal (<= 4.0.4)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 4.1.0 <= 4.1.2)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 4.2.0 <= 4.2.4)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 5.0.0 <= 5.0.3)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 5.1.0 <= 5.1.2)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.7)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.7)
• fortinet fortiportal (>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-099 Vendor Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-099 Vendor Advisory