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Fortinet Updates

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Classification
These posts contain security alerts, including digital loopholes, electronic attacks, technical updates, and they are classified base on the level of severity.

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Warning 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:

https://fortiguard.com/psirt?date=11-2019

Last updated at 1 January, 2020

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