Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in FortiMail and FortiVoice - CVE-2020-9294
Published: April 27, 2020 / Updated: July 12, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU27367
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9294
CWE-ID: CWE-640
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to users' accounts.
The vulnerability exists within the password recovery feature. A remote non-authenticated attacker can request the password change and gain unauthorized access to accounts of other users.
Affected software
FortiMail
FortiVoice
FortiVoice
How to mitigate CVE-2020-9294
Install updates from vendor's website.
FortiMail - addressed in versions 5.4.11, 6.0.8, 6.2.3
FortiVoice - update to 6.0.2
FortiVoice - update to 6.0.2