critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2022-42475Fortinet FortiOS — Heap Overflow in the Remote-Access Service

A heap overflow in the remote-access service of Fortinet's firewalls lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on the device that guards the network.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade FortiOS per Fortinet's advisory, and rebuild appliances that were reachable while unpatched.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
99%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2023-01-02
Added to KEV
2022-12-13
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190
Severity
critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsNetwork access to the remote-access service

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh
mitre_attacknvd.nist.gov2026-09-20humanhigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2022-42475 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07