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CVE-2018-13379

Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN Path Traversal Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2021-11-03. Federal due date: 2022-05-03.

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Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal") in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.3 to 5.6.7 and 5.4.6 to 5.4.12 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 under SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files via special crafted HTTP resource requests.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FortinetFortiproxy
before 1.2.9
Version 2.0.0
FortinetFortios
from 5.4.6 before 5.4.13
from 5.6.3 before 5.6.8
from 6.0.0 before 6.0.5

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