Fortinet’s Five-Year Flub: Old VPN Vulnerability Still Haunts Systems
Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL VPN vulnerability, CVE-2020-12812, is like a bad penny—it keeps coming back! This five-year-old flaw allows users to bypass two-factor authentication by changing username case. Fortinet urges quick fixes, so don’t let this old bug play tricks on your security!
Hot Take:
Ah, the joys of cybersecurity! Just when you thought you had your VPN all locked up tighter than a drum, a five-year-old gremlin sneaks in through the backdoor with a case-sensitive username. This is why we can’t have nice things, folks. Time to crack open the eggnog and do some serious IT therapy, because this old Fortinet flaw is making a comeback like your embarrassing high school yearbook photo at the family reunion!
Key Points:
- A five-year-old vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN, tagged as CVE-2020-12812, is being actively exploited.
- The flaw allows bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) by changing the case of the username.
- Exploitation occurs under specific configurations involving case-sensitive username handling.
- Fortinet addressed the issue in 2020, but systems not updated remain vulnerable.
- Various APT groups and ransomware operators have exploited this vulnerability over the years.
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