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CVE-2023-27997 Is Exploitable, and 69% of FortiGate Firewalls Are Vulnerable

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Summary

Bishop Fox built a working exploit for CVE-2023-27997, a FortiOS SSL VPN heap overflow allowing RCE, and found nearly 490,000 exposed interfaces via Shodan—roughly 69% unpatched.
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CVE-2023-27997
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