CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-35846
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-10-18
- 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])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-307
Description
An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in FortiTester Telnet port 2.3.0 through 3.9.1, 4.0.0 through 4.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.1.0 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to guess the credentials of an admin user via a brute force attack.
Affected configurations
• fortinet fortitester (>= 2.3.0 < 3.9.2)
• fortinet fortitester (>= 4.0.0 < 4.2.1)
• fortinet fortitester (>= 7.0.0 < 7.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts weakness
References
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-244 Vendor Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-244 Vendor Advisory