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CVE-2024-21762

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.6 CRITICAL Ransomware: known use

CVSS base score: 9.6 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Vulnerability

Vendor: Fortinet   Product: FortiOS

Description

Fortinet FortiOS contains an out-of-bound write vulnerability that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute code or commands via specially crafted HTTP requests.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 149 points from 2024-02-10, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 93.1% on 2025-12-20.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 13 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (ADP/Vulnrichment) 9 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

DateSourceArticle
2026-06-24 Kaspersky Securelist StrikeShark: investigating a new campaign delivering Cobalt Strike through SharkLoader

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
none published
Exploit / Pen Test
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
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9.6 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:W/RC:C
CWE-787 — Execute unauthorized code or commands
2024-05-01

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-787) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2024-02-09
2024-02-16
Known

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2024-02-09 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2024-05-01 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-04-11 Fortinet Releases Advisory on New Post-Exploitation Technique for Known Vulnerabilities CISA
2024-09-18 People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations FBI
2024-02-09 Fortinet Releases Security Advisories for FortiOS CISA
2024-02-09 2024-018: Critical Vulnerabilities in FortiOS CERT-EU

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References