Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-36193

Medium

Published: 02 February 2022

Published
02 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0050 66.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-36193 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the command line interpreter of FortiWeb before 6.4.2 may allow an authenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via specially crafted commands.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiweb
5.0.0 — 6.2.6 · 6.3.0 — 6.3.16 · 6.4.0 — 6.4.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References