CVE-2022-22306 is an improper certificate validation vulnerability (CWE-295) affecting FortiOS versions 6.0.0-6.0.14, 6.2.0-6.2.10, 6.4.0-6.4.8, and 7.0.0. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) allows a network-adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on communications between FortiGate devices and certain peers, such as private SDNs and external cloud platforms. While the attack complexity is high, successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.2.0, <= 6.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.4.0, < 6.4.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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