CVE-2019-17656 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2019-17656

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the HTTPD daemon of...

Vulnerability Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the HTTPD daemon of FortiOS 6.0.10 and below, 6.2.2 and below and FortiProxy 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.2.9 and below, 2.0.0 and below may allow an authenticated remote attacker to crash the service by sending a malformed PUT request to the server. Fortinet is not aware of any successful exploitation of this vulnerability that would lead to code execution.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Fortinet FortiProxy, FortiOS
Vulnerable Versions:
FortiProxy 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.2.9 and below, 2.0.0 and below; FortiOS 6.0.10 and below, 6.2.2 and below

Timeline

Official Publish: April 12th, 2021
Last Modified: October 25th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.