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Critical · 9.1 Known exploited · Ransomware Public exploit CVE-2018-13382 EUVD-2018-5326GHSA-chg2-j3mj-m3rj

An Improper Authorization vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.8 and 5.4.1 to 5.4.10 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 …

Published Jun 4, 2019 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by fortinet

Description

An Improper Authorization vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.8 and 5.4.1 to 5.4.10 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 under SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify the password of an SSL VPN web portal user via specially crafted HTTP requests

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Fortinet Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.8, 5.4.1 to 5.4.10, FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 —

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 3 repositories

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