CVE-2022-35846

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.9%

Critical (9.8) in fortinet fortitester. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability [CWE-307] in FortiTester Telnet port 2.3.0 through 3.9.1, 4.0.0 through 4.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.1.0 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to guess the credentials of an admin user via a brute force attack.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-307
Published: 2022-10-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

fortinet:fortitester

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-244
https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-244

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