The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests.
Fortinet has said that an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy is being exploited in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2024-55591, the vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module, Fortinet said in an update.
Security researchers have warned that hackers have been mass-exploiting the vulnerability as a zero-day since December, according to
TechCrunch.
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