Back to vendor advisories
Fortinet PSIRT AdvisoriesFG-IR-26-174

ZTNA Portal Improper Certificate Validation

HighVendor CVSS 8.1 / 10 1 CVE Published Sep 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM UTC

Summary

CVSSv3 Score:

8.1

An improper certificate validation vulnerability [CWE-295] in FortiOS and FortiProxy Agentless ZTNA portal may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the communication channel between the ZTNA portal and the backend destination website.

Revised on 2026-09-08 00:00:00

Products covered

  • FortiOS

  • FortiProxy

Remediation

Separate remediation guidance was not included in the collected bulletin.

CVEs in this advisory 1

Update history

What changed in later vendor updates

SecurityAlert records field-level changes from the point we begin following a bulletin. Earlier vendor changes may not have a field-by-field record.

    • The vendor changed the advisory summary.
    • CVSS changed from 7.3 to 8.1.
    • Added CVEs: CVE-2026-84393.

Updates

  1. Published by Fortinet

    The publication date reported by the vendor.

  2. Added to SecurityAlert

    We collected the advisory from the official source.

  3. Confirmed at the source

    Our collector saw this advisory during a later source check.