Fortinet is warning of two new unpatched patch bypasses for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in FortiSIEM, Fortinet's SIEM solution. Fortinet added the two new vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-23108 and CVE-2024-23109 to the original advisory for the CVE-2023-34992 flaw in a very confusing update. Earlier today, BleepingComputer published an article that the CVEs were released by mistake after being told by Fortinet that they were duplicates of the original CVE-2023-34992. "In this instance, due to an issue with the API which we are currently investigating, rather than an edit, this resulted in two new CVEs being created, duplicates of the original CVE-2023-34992," Fortinet told BleepingComputer. "There is no new vulnerability published for FortiSIEM so far in 2024, this is a system level error and we are working to rectify and withdraw the erroneous entries." However, it turns out that CVE-2024-23108 and CVE-2024-23109 are actually patch bypasses for the CVE-2023-34992 flaw discovered by Horizon3 vulnerability expert Zach Hanley. On X, Zach stated that the new CVEs are patch bypasses for CVE-2023-34992, and the new IDs were assigned to him by Fortinet.
After contacting Fortinet once again, we were told their previous statement was “misstated” and that the two new CVEs are variants of the original flaw. "The PSIRT team followed its process to add two similar variants of the previous CVE (CVE-2023-34992), tracked as CVE-2024-23108 and CVE-2024-23109 to our p...