Resource exhaustion in FortiAuthenticator - CVE-2021-22124

 

Resource exhaustion in FortiAuthenticator - CVE-2021-22124

Published: August 3, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU55554
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22124
CWE-ID:
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in login modules. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

FortiAuthenticator
FortiSandbox

How to mitigate CVE-2021-22124

Install updates from vendor's website.

FortiAuthenticator - addressed in versions 6.0.6, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0
FortiSandbox - addressed in versions 3.0.7, 3.1.5, 3.2.2, 4.0.0

External References

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