Cross-site scripting in FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer - CVE-2018-13375
Published: November 29, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16174
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13375
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of DHCP requests containing malicious scripts in the HOSTNAME parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
FortiManager
FortiAnalyzer
FortiAnalyzer
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13375
Update the affected software to version 5.6.1.
FortiManager - update to 5.6.1
FortiAnalyzer - update to 5.6.1
FortiAnalyzer - update to 5.6.1