SB2021010514 - Denial of service in Fortinet FortiWeb
Published: January 5, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021010514
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29019)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTTP cookies. A remote authenticated user can send a specially crafted HTTP request with a malformed HTTP cookies and crash the httpd daemon.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.