China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-42475 | Unauthenticated Heap Overflow in Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy SSL-VPN (Critical RCE) | 9.8 | 99% | KEVRansomwarePoC | KEV |
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Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42475, is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code. It carries a severity rating of 9.
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