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New Critical Flaw in FortiOS and FortiProxy Could Give Hackers Remote Access

March 9, 2023

Fortinet has released fixes to address 15 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy that could enable a threat actor to take control of affected systems.

The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-25610, is rated 9.3 out of 10 for severity and was internally discovered and reported by its security teams.

“A buffer underwrite (‘buffer underflow’) vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy administrative interface may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and/or perform a DoS on the GUI, via specifically crafted requests,” Fortinet said in an advisory.

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