【Vulnerability Alert】Fortinet Issues Patch for Critical Vulnerability in FortiSwitch (CVE-2024-48887)

publish date : 2025-04-11 update date : 2025-04-11

Source: Ministry of education information & communication security contingency platform


Publication Number	TACERT-ANA-2025040902045656	Publication Time	2025/04/09 14:28
Incident Type	ANA-Vulnerability Alert	Discovery Time	2025/04/09 14:21
Impact Level	Low
[Subject] 【Vulnerability Alert】Fortinet Issues Patch for Critical Vulnerability in FortiSwitch (CVE-2024-48887)
[Content] Forwarded from TWCERTCC-200-202504-00000005 FortiSwitch, an Ethernet switch developed by Fortinet, integrates with FortiGate firewalls to provide centralized, simplified management and intelligent scalability. Recently, Fortinet disclosed a critical vulnerability in the FortiSwitch GUI (CVE-2024-48887, CVSS: 9.8) and released a corresponding fix. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to change administrator passwords by sending specially crafted requests. Information Sharing Level: WHITE (Information content can be publicly disclosed)
[Affected Platform] ● FortiSwitch 6.4.0 to 6.4.14 ● FortiSwitch 7.0.0 to 7.0.10 ● FortiSwitch 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 ● FortiSwitch 7.4.0 to 7.4.4 ● FortiSwitch 7.6.0
[Recommended Actions] Update to the following versions: ● FortiSwitch 6.4.15 ● FortiSwitch 7.0.11 ● FortiSwitch 7.2.9 ● FortiSwitch 7.4.5 ● FortiSwitch 7.6.1
[Reference] 1.https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-169-10063-9de28-1.html 2.https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-435 3.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48887

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