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Threat Advisory: CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Appliance Auth bypass

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This morning, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began tracking exploit attempts targeting CVE-2022-40684 on our network of over 4 million protected websites. CVE-2022-40684 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the administrative interface of Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, FortiProxy web proxies, and FortiSwitch Manager, and is being actively exploited in the wild¹,².

At the time of publishing, we have recorded several exploit attempts and requests originating from the following IP addresses:

206.189.231.41