CVE-2022-29056

At a glance

Severity: LOW 3.5
EPSS: EPSS 1.81 % · percentile 78 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-03-09
Updated: 2024-10-22
Assigner: fortinet
NVD status: Modified

Description

A improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in Fortinet FortiMail version 6.4.0, version 6.2.0 through 6.2.4 and before 6.0.9 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to partially exhaust CPU and memory via sending numerous HTTP requests to the login form.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:X	fortinet
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-307

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-33469
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-29056

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0199 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.0.0 < 6.0.10
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.2.1 < 6.2.5
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:6.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Fortinet · FortiMail	affected 6.4.0 ; affected 6.2.1 ≤ 6.2.4 ; affected 6.0.0 ≤ 6.0.9 ; affected 5.4.0 ≤ 5.4.12

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-20-078

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD