7.5

CVE-2019-17657: fortinet fortianalyzer Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2019-17657
Published 07-04-2020Last modified 25-10-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-17657 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in fortinet fortianalyzer. EPSS estimates a 2.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.44%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 07-04-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSwitch below 3.6.11, 6.0.6 and 6.2.2, FortiAnalyzer below 6.2.3, FortiManager below 6.2.3 and FortiAP-S/W2 below 6.2.2 may allow an attacker to cause admin webUI denial of service (DoS) via handling special crafted HTTP requests/responses in pieces slowly, as demonstrated by Slow HTTP DoS Attacks.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.44%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.44% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.44%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Fortinet5 products
Alpine1 product
  • apache2< 2.4.48-r0

2 vendors · 6 products

References

2 links