CVE-2023-29175 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2023-29175

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiOS 6.2 all...

4.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiOS 6.2 all versions, 6.4 all versions, 7.0.0 through 7.0.10, 7.2.0 and FortiProxy 1.2 all versions, 2.0 all versions, 7.0.0 through 7.0.9, 7.2.0 through 7.2.3 may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the communication channel between the vulnerable device and the remote FortiGuard's map server.

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.

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-468

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Affected Vendor

Fortinet

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Affected Software

FortiOS, FortiProxy

Vulnerable Versions:

7.2.0, 7.0.0, 6.4.0, 6.2.0, 6.0.0, 2.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 13th, 2023

Last Modified: January 14th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle

Credential Access

T1040 Network Sniffing

T1552 Unsecured Credentials

Credential Access

T1071 Application Layer Protocol

Command and Control

T1565 Data Manipulation