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Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read1 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2026-21643
Unauthenticated SQL Injection to Code Execution in Fortinet FortiClient EMS 7.4.4
9.898%KEVPoC
KEV
CVE-2026-35616
Unauthenticated Code Execution in Fortinet FortiClient EMS 7.4.5–7.4.6
9.894%KEVPoC
KEV

From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Apr 05, 2026 Vulnerability / API Security Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9. 1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation.

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