CVE-2015-1452

high
Published 2015-02-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) daemon in Fortinet FortiOS 5.0 Patch 7 build 4457 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (locked CAPWAP Access Controller) via a large number of ClientHello DTLS messages.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-15-002/

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.