Fortinet Updates
3069Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
17 November, 2019
● High
2019-631
All
Description:
Fortinet has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the following products:
- FortiManager VM version 6.2.0, 6.0.6 and below
- FortiOS VM all versions below 6.0.5
- FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below
- FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.6 5.6.0 to 5.6.10 5.4 all versions and below
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Inject malicious code if he has read/write access to the VM image.
- Privilege escalation from admin user to super_admin in FortiOS.
- Run root system commands and overwrite system files in FortiClient.
- Denial of service attack (DoS).
Best practice and Recommendations
The CERT team encourages users to update the affected products and to review Fortinet security advisory: