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CVE-2022-35843

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

An authentication bypass by assumed-immutable data vulnerability [CWE-302] in the FortiOS SSH login component 7.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.0.7, 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, 6.2 all versions, 6.0 all versions and FortiProxy SSH login component 7.0.0 through 7.0.5, 2.0.0 through 2.0.10, 1.2.0 all versions may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to login into the device via sending specially crafted Access-Challenge response from the Radius server.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS (FortiGate): from 6.0.0 through 6.0.15; from 6.2.0 through 6.2.12; from 6.4.0 through 6.4.9; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 7.2.0, 7.2.1
• Fortinet FortiProxy: from 1.2.0 through 1.2.13; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.10; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.6

References

• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-255
• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-255

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