Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2018-13383

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Out-of-bounds Write

What is affected

Vendor Fortinet
Product FortiOS and FortiProxy
Weakness CWE-787

The vulnerability

A heap buffer overflow in Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy may cause the SSL VPN web service termination for logged in users.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 10 July 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 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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