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CVE-2023-29178

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2023-06-13 · updated 2026-10-22
• Weakness: CWE-824

Description

A access of uninitialized pointer vulnerability [CWE-824] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.4, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.11, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiOS 6.2 all versions, FortiOS 6.0 all versions, FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.9, FortiProxy 2.0 all versions, FortiProxy 01.02 all versions, FortiProxy 1.2 all versions, FortiProxy 01.01 all versions, FortiProxy 1.1 all versions allows an authenticated attacker to repetitively crash the httpsd process via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS (FortiGate): from 6.0.0 through 6.0.17; from 6.2.0 through 6.2.15; from 6.4.0 through 6.4.13; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.11; from 7.2.0 through 7.2.4
• Fortinet FortiProxy: from 1.1.0 through 1.1.6; from 1.2.0 through 1.2.13; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.12; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.9; 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3

References

• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-095
• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-095

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