CVE-2022-43947

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.7
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
fortinet
NVD status
Modified

Description

An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3 and before 7.0.10, FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2 and before 7.0.8 administrative interface allows an attacker with a valid user account to perform brute-force attacks on other user accounts via injecting valid login sessions.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:Cfortinet
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Fortinet · FortiOSaffected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.3 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.10 ; affected 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.12 ; affected 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.13
Fortinet · FortiProxyaffected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.1 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.7 ; affected 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.12 ; affected 1.2.0 ≤ 1.2.13 ; affected 1.1.0 ≤ 1.1.6 ; affected 1.0.0 ≤ 1.0.7

References

Sources

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