CVE-2023-40721

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Feb 11, 2025
Updated: Jan 14, 2026
Reserved: Aug 21, 2023

Description

A use of externally-controlled format string vulnerability [CWE-134] vulnerability in Fortinet allows a privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially crafted requests.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:C	fortinet

Weaknesses

CWE-134 Execute unauthorized code or commands

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiPAMFortinet	1.1.0 through 1.1.2Affected 1.0.0 through 1.0.3Affected
FortiSwitchManagerFortinet	7.2.0 through 7.2.2Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.2Affected
FortiOSFortinet	7.4.0Affected 7.2.0 through 7.2.5Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.13Affected 6.4.0 through 6.4.16Affected 6.2.0 through 6.2.17Affected
FortiProxyFortinet	7.4.0Affected 7.2.0 through 7.2.6Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.14Affected 2.0.0 through 2.0.14Affected 1.2.0 through 1.2.13Affected

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-261

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