Outbreak Alerts

FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts will be the mechanism for communicating important information to customers and partners. When a cybersecurity incident/attack/event occurs that has large ramifications to the cybersecurity industry and affects numerous organizations, this page will be updated with a link to the individual FortiGuard Outbreak Alert. That Alert will include:

  • An explanation of the attack, its timeline and what specific technology was affected
  • Where applicable patches and/or mitigation recommendations can be found
  • What Fortinet products, if deployed, would break the attack sequence
  • What specific versions those Fortinet products need to be at to provide the protection
  • Threat Hunting tools from Fortinet to help you determine if you were affected
  • Related research from FortiGuard Labs
Outbreak Alert- 2022 Annual Report
In the year 2022, FortiGuard IPS and FortiGuard AV/Sandbox blocked three trillion and six trillion hits respectively from vulnerabilities, malware and 0-day attacks. Those encompassed several thousand varieties of Remote Code Execution, Cross-Site Scripting, Elevation of Privilege, Denial of...
Jan 20, 2023 Severity: Critical
CWP Control Web Panel Command Injection Vulnerability
A command injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to easily exploit CWP (Control Web Panel) with a crafted HTTP request which can result in Remote Code Execution. According to Shodan, there are thousands of servers that could still be vulnerable to CVE-2022-44877. This vulnerability...
Jan 19, 2023 Severity: High