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
Apache Log4j2 Vulnerability
A 0-day exploit was discovered on a popular Java library Log4j2 that can result to a Remote Code Execution (RCE). This is a widely deployed library, and while systems protected by Fortinet Security Fabric are secured by the protections below, all systems need to upgrade ASAP as this is 10.0...
Released: Dec 10, 2021 Updated: Jun 27, 2022 Severity: Critical
Atlassian Confluence OGNL RCE Vulnerability
A critical 0-day vulnerability on Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server is actively being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is established via the Object Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) injection that allows an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code..
Released: Jun 04, 2022 Severity: High