Vulnerability in Fortinet Fortigate-1000c
CVE-2012-4948
The default configuration of Fortinet Fortigate UTM appliances uses the same Certification Authority certificate and same private key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by leveraging the presence of the Fortinet_CA_SSLProxy certificate in a list of trusted root certification authorities.
Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (24.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 24.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111708 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/56382 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/87048 (vdb-entry)