CVE-2023-26208
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-09 14:55
Modified
2024-10-22 20:47
Severity ?
3.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P
Summary
A improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in Fortinet FortiAuthenticator 6.4.x and before allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to partially exhaust CPU and memory via sending numerous HTTP requests to the login form.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-20-078Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
FortinetFortiAuthenticator
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