Critical vulnerability found in unpatched Fortinet products including FortiGate Firewalls

Fortinet has announced a significant vulnerability (CVE-2024-45324, CVSSv3 Score 7.0 out of 10) in a number of products including FortiOS (all supported versions), FortiPAM (all supported versions), FortiProxy (all supported versions), FortiSRA (all supported versions) and FortiWeb (all supported versions). Patches are available for all supported products and should be installed as soon as feasible. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a privileged attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS commands.

Our team is currently confirming but we believe that all Cyber Tech Cafe MyIT Clients have been updated beyond the affected versions and will reach out to any who are not to coordinate the update.

Additional Resources

• FortiGuard Labs
• OpenCVE
• Mitre.org

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