🛡️ CVE-2022-29054 — fortios

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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 none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• 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: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-29054 is classified as CWE-329: Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode. The product generates and uses a predictable initialization Vector (IV) with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Mode, which causes algorithms to be susceptible to dictionary attacks when they are encrypted under the same key.

Affected software

CVE-2022-29054 is recorded against 2 packages.

• fortios
• fortiproxy

Timeline and source

Published on 16 February 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

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

• CVE-2025-62826 (3.1 Low, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-59839 (5.5 Medium, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-62675 (3.4 Low, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-23573 (6.1 Medium, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-59840 (4.3 Medium, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-59837 (6.6 Medium, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-43892 (4.3 Medium, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-67862 (6.7 Medium, published 9 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-329: Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode) in other software:

• CVE-2024-56141 (5.0 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14969 (4.4 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-49783 (5.3 Medium, published 8 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2025-2814 (4.0 Medium, published 13 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2022-46397 (7.5 High, published 28 Mar 2023)

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