cve-2021-36166
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-01 18:10
Modified
2024-10-25 13:35
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:U/RC:C
EPSS score ?
0.43% (0.7457)
Summary
An improper authentication vulnerability in FortiMail before 7.0.1 may allow a remote attacker to efficiently guess one administrative account's authentication token by means of the observation of certain system's properties.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-028Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-028Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Fortinet Fortinet FortiMail Version: FortiMail before 7.0.1
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