VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2022-40684

unknown KEV
Published 2022-10-11 · Modified 2022-10-11
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Fortinet
Product
Multiple Products
Due date
2022-11-01

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-52239 remote windows
ub3rsick · 2025-04-16

Fortinet FortiOS_ FortiProxy_ and FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0 - Authentication bypass

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-51092 webapps multiple
Felipe Alcantara · 2023-03-27

FortiOS_ FortiProxy_ FortiSwitchManager v7.2.1 - Authentication Bypass

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/fortinet_authentication_bypass_cve_2022_40684 rank 600
Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager authentication bypass.
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.