CVE-2022-40684

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.8
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2022-10-11
Exploited per ENISA since 2022-10-11
EPSS: EPSS 99.98 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-10-18
Updated: 2026-08-06
Assigner: fortinet
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel [CWE-288] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.6, FortiProxy version 7.2.0 and version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and FortiSwitchManager version 7.2.0 and 7.0.0 allows an unauthenticated atttacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:U/RC:C	fortinet
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-43955
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-40684

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-894 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-ALE-011 — Vulnérabilité dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 < 7.0.7
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiswitchmanager:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiswitchmanager:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 < 7.0.7
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 < 7.2.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
Fortinet · Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiSwitchManager	affected FortiOS 7.2.1, 7.2.0, 7.0.6, 7.0.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.3, 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 7.0.0; FortiProxy 7.2.0, 7.0.6, 7.0.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.3, 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 7.0.0; FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0, 7.0.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
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