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CVE-2022-42474

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-42474 is a relative path traversal vulnerability (CWE-23) affecting Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager versions. An authenticated attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted HTTP requests to delete arbitrary directories from the filesystem. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.7, indicating low impact (no confidentiality, integrity, or availability loss) and requiring high privileges for exploitation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.0, <= 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.1.0, <= 1.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.2.0, <= 1.2.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, <= 2.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 709 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

fortinetvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

fortiguard.com / psirt/FG-IR-22-393
Vendor Advisory