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Medium
CVE-2016-7541
Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x...
Vulnerability Description
Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.
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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Affected Vendor
Fortinet
View all reports →Affected Software
FortiOS
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0.x, 5.2.x
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 30th, 2017
Last Modified:
October 25th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.