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CVE-2017-14182

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 5.4.0 to 5.4.5 allows an authenticated user to cause the web GUI to be temporarily unresponsive, via passing a specially crafted payload to the 'params' parameter of the JSON web API.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Fortinet — Fortios

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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