CVE-2017-7739

medium

Published 2017-11-13 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

A reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web proxy disclaimer response web pages in Fortinet FortiOS 5.6.0, 5.4.0 to 5.4.5, 5.2.0 to 5.2.11 allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of the victim's browser via sending a maliciously crafted URL to the victim.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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