CVE-2016-8495 (GCVE-0-2016-8495)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-10-25 14:40
VLAI
Summary
An improper certificate validation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiManager 5.0.6 through 5.2.7 and 5.4.0 through 5.4.1 allows remote attacker to spoof a trusted entity by using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack via the Fortisandbox devices probing feature.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-24 20:04 UTC
CWE
  • Credentials exposure
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-055 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96157 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Fortinet FortiManager Affected: 5.0.6 to 5.2.7
Affected: 5.4.0 to 5.4.1
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Date Public
2017-02-08 00:00
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Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.