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CVE-2024-55591

At a glance

Severity
CRITICAL 9.6
Exploitation
Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2025-01-14
Exploited per ENISA since 2025-01-14
EPSS
EPSS 94.35 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
fortinet
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy version 7.0.0 through 7.0.19 and 7.2.0 through 7.2.12 allows a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:Cfortinet
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.16
Fortinet · FortiProxyaffected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.12 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.19

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
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