CVE-2019-17657 is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSwitch, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, and FortiAP-S/W2 products across specific versions. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) on the administrative web UI by sending specially crafted, slow HTTP requests. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortianalyzer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap-s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap-w2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortimanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.6.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortiswitch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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