December 10, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2021-44168 Fortinet FortiOS
Fortinet FortiOS Arbitrary File Download
- Added to KEV
2021-12-10- Federal due date
2021-12-24- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiOS
- EPSS
- 60.0th percentile (score 0.009, as of
2026-11-06) - NVD CVSS v3.1
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- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- ATT&CK
- T1078.003 , T1601 · signal rollup
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44168
CISA short description
Fortinet FortiOS "execute restore src-vis" downloads code without integrity checking, allowing an attacker to arbitrarily download files.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.