Security Resilience

CVE-2024-23105

Fortinet Fortiportal 7.0.0 – 7.0.6

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0044 37th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-23105 is a high-severity Use of Less Trusted Source (CWE-348) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiportal. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Cached Domain Credentials (T1003.005); ranked at the 37th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and IA-3 (Device Identification and Authentication) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A Use Of Less Trusted Source [CWE-348] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiPortal version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 allows an unauthenticated attack to bypass IP protection through crafted HTTP or HTTPS packets.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access cached domain credentials used to allow authentication to occur in the event a domain controller is unavailable.
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump the contents of <code>/etc/passwd</code> and <code>/etc/shadow</code> to enable offline password cracking.
T1010 Application Window Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of open application windows.
T1012 Query Registry Discovery
Adversaries may interact with the Windows Registry to gather information about the system, configuration, and installed software.
T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares Lateral Movement
Adversaries may use [Valid Accounts](https://attack.
T1021.004 SSH Lateral Movement
Adversaries may use [Valid Accounts](https://attack.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiportal
7.2.0, 7.2.1 · 7.0.0 — 7.0.6

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 7 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Provenance tracking supplies the information needed to distinguish and prefer more-trusted sources, reducing the chance that a weaker source is chosen.

Information flow enforcement can require that data or decisions are taken only from explicitly approved, higher-trust sources rather than less-verified ones.

Device identification and authentication forces verification of the source before any data it supplies is used, eliminating reliance on unauthenticated inputs.

Boundary protection monitors and filters traffic at external interfaces, structurally limiting the ability to accept data from less-trusted external sources.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

DE.AE-03 partial match
blocks

Correlating multiple sources can surface discrepancies that discourage reliance on the less-trusted one.

ID.RA-09 partial match
blocks

Explicit authenticity/integrity checks before use directly reduce selection of a less-trusted source.

PR.DS-02 partial match
blocks

Protecting data-in-transit integrity helps ensure the more-trusted source is the one whose data is accepted.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

degrades

Network security controls can enforce trusted data paths and source validation, reducing reliance on unverified inputs.

degrades

Secure network services include source validation and integrity checks that help prevent acceptance of data from less-trusted origins.

blocks

A.8.26 requires identifying and specifying security requirements (including input validation, trust levels, and resilience against injections) but does not itself enforce, implement, or configure any mechanism that stops CWE-348 from being exploited; it is a requirements-gathering control whose effect depends on other controls (e.g. 8.24, 8.5) being correctly realized.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (distrust external input, least privilege, assume breach, defense-in-depth, secure design review against attack patterns) that reach some but not most instances of preferring a less-trustworthy source; a bounded remainder (e.g. legacy code or un-reviewed third-party components) can still introduce the flaw

prevents

Secure coding practices can enforce checks that prefer or validate the more trusted data source.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (higher-evidence rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
  • V-248575 OL 8 must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components of local packages without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. blocks CWE-348
Oracle Linux 9 (1 rule)
  • V-271525 OL 9 must have GPG signature verification enabled for all software repositories. blocks CWE-348
RHEL 7 (1 rule)
  • V-204447 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components from a repository without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. blocks CWE-348

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