Double trouble for Fortinet as it issues critical FortiSIEM vulns

Updated Fortinet's FortiSIEM product is vulnerable to two maximum-severity security vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution, or at least according to two freshly published CVEs.* Both CVE-2024-23108 and CVE-2024-23109 have been assigned scores of 10 on the CVSS scale, suggesting exploits can be carried out remotely by unauthenticated attackers, are low in complexity, and require no user interaction to pull off. In registering the CVE identities for the vulnerabilities, Fortinet linked to its own advisory to provide more information, but the link directs users to an older issue that was addressed in early October 2023. "Multiple improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS Command vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiSIEM supervisor may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands via crafted API requests," the advisory's description of the vulnerability reads. Taking a glance at older, cached versions of the same advisory, we can see that the list of affected products has been recently updated, adding additional FortiSIEM versions. Despite Fortinet's advisory not being officially updated (yet), it suggests the two new vulnerabilities may be similar in nature to the one fixed in October, affecting newer versions of FortiSIEM. The Register asked Fortinet for clarity on the matter but did not receive a response. We also spoke to application security expert Sean Wright, who said the most recent two vulnerabilities in FortiSIEM will ...