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CVE-2019-17657

Published: Apr 7, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-400
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.4%
Top 18.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSwitch below 3.6.11, 6.0.6 and 6.2.2, FortiAnalyzer below 6.2.3, FortiManager below 6.2.3 and FortiAP-S/W2 below 6.2.2 may allow an attacker to cause admin webUI denial of service (DoS) via handling special crafted HTTP requests/responses in pieces slowly, as demonstrated by Slow HTTP DoS Attacks.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

Fortinet FortiSwitchn/a
FortiAnalyzern/a
FortiManagern/a
FortiAP-S/W2n/a
fortianalyzerfortinetSecurity Products
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Impact
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References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-013
fortiguard.com
https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-013
fortiguard.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17657
nvd.nist.gov

Timeline

Published
Apr 7, 2020
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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