Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-23439

Medium

Published: 22 January 2025

Published
22 January 2025
Modified
14 January 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.8th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-23439 is a medium-severity Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere (CWE-610) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiauthenticator. Its CVSS base score is 4.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A externally controlled reference to a resource in another sphere vulnerability in Fortinet allows attacker to poison web caches via crafted HTTP requests, where the `Host` header points to an arbitrary webserver

CWE(s)
CWE-610

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiadc
5.4.0 — 6.2.4
fortinet
fortiauthenticator
6.3.0 — 6.3.4 · 6.4.0 — 6.4.2
fortinet
fortiddos
5.3.0 — 5.5.2
fortinet
fortiddos-f
6.1.0 — 6.3.4
fortinet
fortimail
6.4.0 — 7.0.4
fortinet
fortindr
7.2.0 · 1.4.0 — 7.1.1
fortinet
fortiproxy
2.0.0 — 7.0.5 · 7.2.0 — 7.4.0
fortinet
fortirecorder
6.0.0 — 6.0.11 · 6.4.0 — 6.4.3
fortinet
fortisoar
6.4.0 — 7.3.0
fortinet
fortitester
3.7.0 — 7.2.2
+4 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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.

SI-22 Information Diversity
addresses: CWE-610

Limits impact of an externally controlled reference to a primary information resource by switching to an identified alternative.

References