CVE-2016-1909

EPSS 71.3%

Vexday Risk Score

60Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 71.3%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —

Lifecycle

09 Jan 2016Metasploit module available

09 Jan 2016Public PoC

15 Jan 2016Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer before 5.0.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.5; FortiSwitch 3.3.x before 3.3.3; FortiCache 3.0.x before 3.0.8; and FortiOS 4.1.x before 4.1.11, 4.2.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x before 4.3.17 and 5.0.x before 5.0.8 have a hardcoded passphrase for the Fortimanager_Access account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access via an SSH session.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/135225/FortiGate-OS-5.0.7-SSH-Backdoor.htmlunverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39224/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43386unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://blog.fortinet.com/post/brief-statement-regarding-issues-found-with-fortios http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135225/FortiGate-OS-5.0.7-SSH-Backdoor.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/26 https://twitter.com/esizkur/status/686842135501508608 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39224/http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/multiple-products-ssh-undocumented-login-vulnerability http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034663