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CVE-2017-14186
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.7, 5.4 and below versions under SSL VPN web…
Medium5.4EPSS 3.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- fortinet
Description
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.7, 5.4 and below versions under SSL VPN web portal allows a remote user to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of the victim's browser via the login redir parameter. An URL Redirection attack may also be feasible by injecting an external URL via the affected parameter.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting (XSS), URL Redirection Attack
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 5.6.0 to 5.6.2
- affected 5.4.0 to 5.4.6
- affected 5.2.0 to 5.2.12
- affected 5.0 and below
References (3)
- 1039891 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 101955 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-17-242 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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