CVE-2022-40684

CISA KEV RANSOMWARE
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 10/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product Fortinet — Multiple Products
Date Added 2022-10-11
Remediation Due 2022-11-01
Ransomware Use CONFIRMED
https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-377; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40684

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (6)

VendorProductVersion
fortinet fortios 7.0.0 – 7.0.7
fortinet fortios 7.2.0 – 7.2.2
fortinet fortiproxy 7.0.0 – 7.0.7
fortinet fortiproxy 7.2.0
fortinet fortiswitchmanager 7.0.0
fortinet fortiswitchmanager 7.2.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

10 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)
✓ High exploitation probability

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

99.98%
Raw Score 0.999840
Percentile 100.0%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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