CVE-2023-45582

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS: EPSS 0.52 % · percentile 44 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-11-14
Updated: 2024-08-30
Assigner: fortinet
NVD status: Modified

Description

An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in FortiMail webmail version 7.2.0 through 7.2.4, 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and before 6.4.8 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform a brute force attack on the affected endpoints via repeated login attempts.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C	fortinet
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-307

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-49874
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-45582

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0973 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.9
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.8
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.6
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.4
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimail:7.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Fortinet · FortiMail	affected 7.4.0 ; affected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.4 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.6 ; affected 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.8 ; affected 6.2.0 ≤ 6.2.9

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-287

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