According to Fortinet, the Fortinet FortiOS vulnerability (affecting also Fortinet VPN) CVE-2024-21762 allows attackers to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted requests and is potentially exploited in the wild.
CISA marked the vulnerability as exploited.
While a full exploit simulation is not available, the IONIX research team used a deeper version analysis to distinguish between patched versions and older, vulnerable ones.
The analysis leverages a change that was done in the patched version that blocks “chunk-encoded” malformed requests. Our testing tool sends multiple test requests to see that the assets are live and then sends a badly formed “chunk-encoded” probe that is expected to time out only on vulnerable versions.
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