Stack-based buffer overflow in FortiWeb - CVE-2020-29019
Published: January 5, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU49280
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29019
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTTP cookies. A remote authenticated user can send a specially crafted HTTP request with a malformed HTTP cookies and crash the httpd daemon.
Affected software
FortiWeb
How to mitigate CVE-2020-29019
Install updates from vendor's website.
FortiWeb - update to 6.2.4