CVE-2022-22305
An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiManager 7.0.1 and below, 6.4.6 and below; FortiAnalyzer 7.0.2 and…
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fortinet
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| fortinetCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.2
- affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.7
- affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.11
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.12
- affected 4.0.0 – ≤ 4.0.2
- affected 3.2.0 – ≤ 3.2.4
- affected 3.1.0 – ≤ 3.1.5
- affected 3.0.0 – ≤ 3.0.7
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.1
- affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.6
- affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.11
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.12
What to do
Solution: Please upgrade to FortiManager version 7.0.2 or above. Please upgrade to FortiManager version 6.4.7 or above. Please upgrade to FortiAnalyzer version 7.0.3 or above. Please upgrade to FortiAnalyzer version 6.4.8 or above. Please upgrade to FortiSandbox version 4.2.0 or above
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-27451 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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