Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-23782

High

Published: 16 February 2023

Published
16 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.9th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-23782 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A heap-based buffer overflow in Fortinet FortiWeb version 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, FortiWeb version 6.3.0 through 6.3.19, FortiWeb 6.4 all versions, FortiWeb 6.2 all versions, FortiWeb 6.1 all versions allows attacker to escalation of privilege via specifically crafted arguments to existing…

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CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiweb
6.0.0 — 6.2.7 · 6.3.0 — 6.3.20 · 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