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CVE-2022-45861

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-824

Description

An access of uninitialized pointer vulnerability [CWE-824] in the SSL VPN portal of Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, version 7.0.0 through 7.0.9 and before 6.4.11 and FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, version 7.0.0 through 7.0.7 and before 2.0.11 allows a remote authenticated attacker to crash the sslvpn daemon via an HTTP GET request.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS (FortiGate): from 6.2.0 through 6.2.13; from 6.4.0 through 6.4.11; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.9; from 7.2.0 through 7.2.3
• Fortinet FortiProxy: from 1.2.0 through 1.2.13; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.11; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 7.2.0, 7.2.1

References

• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-477
• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-477

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