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Fortinet is a cybersecurity vendor best known for FortiGate, a network firewall platform running FortiOS. FortiGate appliances, virtual machines, and cloud deployments provide traffic filtering, VPN access, intrusion prevention, and network segmentation; related products manage devices, collect security telemetry, or protect endpoints. FortiGuard Labs supplies threat intelligence and detection updates used across parts of this ecosystem.
Fortinet matters to security teams because its devices commonly sit at network boundaries and may expose administrative interfaces or SSL-VPN services to the internet. Vulnerabilities in FortiOS or supporting products can therefore create a path to authentication bypass, unauthorized access, or interception of remote connections when affected configurations are present. Practitioners should track Fortinet advisories, promptly apply firmware and signature updates, restrict management access, use multifactor authentication where supported, and monitor device logs and configuration changes. During an incident, preserve firewall and VPN telemetry and review connected systems rather than treating the appliance as an isolated asset.
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Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild
Fortinet has begun releasing security updates to address a critical flaw impacting FortiOS that has come under active exploitation in the wild
Fortinet has warned of a new security flaw in FortiWeb that it said has been exploited in the wild
Fortinet has released fixes for a critical security flaw impacting FortiWeb that could enable an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary database commands on susceptible instances
Fortinet has patched a critical security flaw that it said has been exploited as a zero-day in attacks targeting FortiVoice enterprise phone systems
A now-patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiClient EMS is being exploited by malicious actors as part of a cyber campaign that installed remote desktop software such as AnyDesk and ScreenConnect. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.3), an SQL injection bug that allows attackers to execute unauthorized code or commands by sending specially crafted
No less than 330000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical security flaw affecting Fortinet devices that have come under active exploitation in the wild