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CVE-2018-13374

medium CISA KEV

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC Improper Access Control Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Fortinet — FortiOS and FortiADC

A Improper Access Control in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.2, 5.6.7 and before, FortiADC 6.1.0, 6.0.0 to 6.0.1, 5.4.0 to 5.4.4 allows attacker to obtain the LDAP server login credentials configured in FortiGate via pointing a LDAP server connectivity test request to a rogue LDAP server instead of the configured one.

CVSS
4.3
4.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2019-01-22 14:29
Modified: 2026-10-01 19:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC
Exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Added 2022-09-08 · due 2022-09-29
Known ransomware use: Known

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Affected products

fortinet / fortiadc ≥5.4.0 <5.4.5, ≥6.0.0 <6.0.2, 6.1.0
fortinet / fortios <6.0.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-18-157
Vendor advisory: https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-18-157

References

Data sources

CISA KEV — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC · record ↗

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