Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-44254

Medium

Published: 10 September 2024

Published
10 September 2024
Modified
12 December 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.8th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-44254 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortianalyzer. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An authorization bypass through user-controlled key [CWE-639] vulnerability in FortiAnalyzer version 7.4.1 and before 7.2.5 and FortiManager version 7.4.1 and before 7.2.5 may allow a remote attacker with low privileges to read sensitive data via a crafted HTTP request.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortianalyzer
7.4.0 · 6.2.0 — 7.2.5
fortinet
fortimanager
7.4.0 · 6.2.0 — 7.2.5
fortinet
fortianalyzer big data
7.2.0 — 7.2.5

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.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

References