CVE-2012-4948 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-4948

The default configuration of Fortinet Fortigate UTM appliances uses the...

Vulnerability Description

The default configuration of Fortinet Fortigate UTM appliances uses the same Certification Authority certificate and same private key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by leveraging the presence of the Fortinet_CA_SSLProxy certificate in a list of trusted root certification authorities.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

fortigate-1000c, fortigate-100d, fortigate-110c, fortigate-1240b, fortigate-200b, fortigate-20c, fortigate-300c, fortigate-3040b, fortigate-310b, fortigate-311b, fortigate-3140b, fortigate-3240c, fortigate-3810a, fortigate-3950b, fortigate-40c, fortigate-5001a-sw, fortigate-5001b, fortigate-5020, fortigate-5060, fortigate-50b, fortigate-5101c, fortigate-5140b, fortigate-600c, fortigate-60c, fortigate-620b, fortigate-800c, fortigate-80c, fortigate-voice-80c, fortigaterugged-100c
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: November 14th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.