Researchers release PoC for Fortinet firewall flaw, exploitation attempts mount

Horizon3.ai researchers have released a PoC exploit for CVE-2022-40684, the authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Fortinet‘s firewalls and secure web gateways, and soon after exploitation attempts started rising. “[On Thursday], the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began tracking exploit attempts targeting CVE-2022-40684 on our network of over 4 million protected websites,” Wordfence threat analyst Ram Gall shared. They have recorded several exploit attempts and requests from over 20 IP addresses, but most of those were attempts to … More →

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