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CVE-2026-71408

medium

A allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.6, FortiOS 7.4 all versions, FortiOS 7.2 all version…

Vendor / product: Fortinet — fortios

A allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.6, FortiOS 7.4 all versions, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform a slow HTTP DoS attack on the web interface via crafted HTTP requests.

CVSS
5.3
5.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (psirt@fortinet.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-12 13:17
Modified: 2026-10-29 17:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 12 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-29 17:46 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

fortinet / fortios <7.6.7

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.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-26-162
Patch / mitigation: https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-26-162

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-29 17:46 UTC · record ↗

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