CVE-2021-36172
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-02 17:35
Modified
2024-10-25 13:48
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:W/RC:C
Summary
An improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in the parser of XML responses of FortiPortal before 6.0.6 may allow an attacker who controls the producer of XML reports consumed by FortiPortal to trigger a denial of service or read arbitrary files from the underlying file system by means of specifically crafted XML documents.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-21-104Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
FortinetFortinet FortiPortal
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