CVE-2016-7541

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.

Affected products

Fortinet FortiOS (FortiGate): 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+20)

References

http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-088
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94477
http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-088
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94477

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