fkie_cve-2026-55841

2026-10-16T01:28:29.956848+00:00

Graylog is a free and open log management platform. Prior to Graylog Server versions 6.3.12, 7.0.7, and 7.1.2 and Graylog Forwarder version 7.3, the FortiGate key-value syslog parser in graylog2-server/src/main/java/org/graylog2/inputs/codecs/GLFortiGateSyslogEvent.java and graylog2-server/src/main/java/org/graylog2/inputs/codecs/SyslogCodec.java mishandles field-like text inside quoted values. GLFortiGateSyslogEvent.getFields() uses KV_PATTERN and QUOTED_KV_PATTERN, while SyslogCodec.parse() invokes the FortiGateSyslogEvent parser; crafted values containing = or backslash-escaped quotes can cause embedded keys such as srcip, dstip, date, time, and tz to remove or overwrite original top-level fields or produce an invalid message that Graylog discards. An unauthenticated network sender who can submit syslog messages can therefore manipulate security-log fields or evade logging to obscure malicious activity. This issue is fixed in Graylog Server versions 6.3.12, 7.0.7, and 7.1.2 and Graylog Forwarder version 7.3.

GHSA-gqr6-r77p-c2pj — Fortigate syslog message parser can be exploited to modify or delete fields from the original message

2026-10-16T01:28:29.957052+00:00

Affected: Maven: org.graylog2:graylog2-server

### Impact

A security issue has been identified in Graylog affecting the parsing of syslog messages that use a key-value format, such as those generated by Fortigate devices.

The vulnerability allows attackers to overwrite individual message fields, or to produce invalid messages which Graylog will discard. This effectively enables log evasion techniques to obscure malicious activity.

### Patches

The issue has been fixed in the following Graylog versions: `6.3.12`, `7.0.7`, `7.1.2`. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or above to remediate the vulnerability.

Graylog Cloud has already been patched.

### Workarounds

There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. Upgrading to a patched version is recommended.

To find potentially discarded messages due to parsing errors, customers of Graylog Enterprise or Security can check the Indexing and Processing Failures Index[^1].

### Credits

Thanks to Jose Luis González, from Fundación Sarenet, with additional analysis by Borja Marcos from Sarenet.

[^1]: https://go2docs.graylog.org/current/getting_in_log_data/indexer_and_processing_failures.html

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