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🛡️ CVE-2022-22305 — fortianalyzer

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-297 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
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Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiManager 7.0.1 and below, 6.4.6 and below; FortiAnalyzer 7.0.2 and below, 6.4.7 and below; FortiOS 6.2.x and 6.0.x; FortiSandbox 4.0.x, 3.2.x and 3.1.x may allow a network adjacent and unauthenticated attacker to man-in-the-middle the communication between the listed products and some external peers.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-22305 is classified as CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch. The product communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the product does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.

Affected software

CVE-2022-22305 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • fortianalyzer
  • fortimanager
  • fortios (from 6.2.0 up to 6.2.15)
  • fortisandbox

Timeline and source

Published on 1 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

fortiguard.com
fortiguard.com

Other advisories for this package

fortianalyzer has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-297
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-01
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fortianalyzer — —
fortimanager — —
fortios 6.2.0 6.2.15
fortisandbox — —

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