Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2018-13374

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC Improper Access Control Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Fortinet
Product FortiOS and FortiADC
Weakness CWE-732

The vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC contain an improper access control vulnerability that allows attackers to obtain the LDAP server login credentials configured in FortiGate by pointing a LDAP server connectivity test request to a rogue LDAP server.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 29 September 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Ransomware

CISA records this vulnerability as having been used in ransomware campaigns. That is a confirmed observation, not an assessment of likelihood.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 03:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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