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Friday, September 18, 2026
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Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC Improper Access Control Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-09-08
Federal due date
2022-09-29
Vendor
Fortinet
Product
FortiOS and FortiADC
EPSS
98.5th percentile (score 0.378, as of 2026-09-16)
NVD CVSS v3.1
4.3 (MEDIUM)
Ransomware use
Known
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13374

CISA short description

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC contain an improper access control vulnerability that allows attackers to obtain the LDAP server login credentials configured in FortiGate by pointing a LDAP server connectivity test request to a rogue LDAP server.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

NVD description

A Improper Access Control in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.2, 5.6.7 and before, FortiADC 6.1.0, 6.0.0 to 6.0.1, 5.4.0 to 5.4.4 allows attacker to obtain the LDAP server login credentials configured in FortiGate via pointing a LDAP server connectivity test request to a rogue LDAP server instead of the configured one.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.