An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts [CWE-307] in FortiSIEM below 7.0.0 may allow a non-privileged user with…

Description

An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts [CWE-307] in FortiSIEM below 7.0.0 may allow a non-privileged user with access to several endpoints to brute force attack these endpoints.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Weakness

• CWE-307: Improper access control (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-307 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Fortinet · FortiSIEM

  • affected 6.7.0
  • affected 6.6.0 – ≤ 6.6.3
  • affected 6.5.0 – ≤ 6.5.1
  • affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.2
  • affected 6.3.0 – ≤ 6.3.3
  • affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.1
  • affected 6.1.0 – ≤ 6.1.2
  • affected 5.4.0
  • affected 5.3.0 – ≤ 5.3.3
  • affected 5.2.5 – ≤ 5.2.8
  • affected 5.2.1 – ≤ 5.2.2
  • affected 5.1.0 – ≤ 5.1.3

What to do

Solution: Please upgrade to FortiSIEM version 7.0.0 or above Please upgrade to FortiSIEM version 6.7.1 or above

References (1)

• https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-258 (opens in a new tab)x_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 23 Oct 2024, 14:27 UTC.