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Fortinet PSIRT AdvisoriesFG-IR-26-162

UI DoS attack

MediumVendor CVSS 5.3 / 10 1 CVE Published Aug 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM UTC

Summary

CVSSv3 Score:

5.3

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability [CWE-770] in FortiOS may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform a slow HTTP DoS attack on the web interface via crafted HTTP requests.

Revised on 2026-08-12 00:00:00

Products covered

  • FortiOS

Remediation

Separate remediation guidance was not included in the collected bulletin.

CVEs in this advisory 1

Update history

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    • The vendor changed the advisory summary.
    • CVSS changed from 5.0 to 5.3.
    • Added CVEs: CVE-2026-71408.

Updates

  1. Published by Fortinet

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  2. Added to SecurityAlert

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