Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-41024

High

Published: 08 December 2021

Published
08 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0100 77.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-41024 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A relative path traversal [CWE-23] vulnerabiltiy in FortiOS versions 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 and FortiProxy verison 7.0.0 may allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized attacker to inject path traversal character sequences to disclose sensitive information of the server via the GET request of…

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the login page.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiproxy
7.0.0
fortinet
fortios
7.0.0, 7.0.1

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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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