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CVE-2016-7541

N/A

Published: March 30, 2017 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorFortiOS

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1.0%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

FortiOS · Fortinet

95%

5.0.0 5.0.1 5.0.10 5.0.11 5.0.12 5.0.13 5.0.14 5.0.2 5.0.3 5.0.4 5.0.5 5.0.6 5.0.7 5.0.8 5.0.9 5.0.x 5.2.0 5.2.1 5.2.10 5.2.2 5.2.3 5.2.4 5.2.5 5.2.6 5.2.7 5.2.8 5.2.9 5.2.x

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRMNot Applicable

Source: [email protected]

http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-088

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94477

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-254

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