FortiGate Memory and CPU Troubleshooting

From time to time we face performance problems on FortiGate units in our daily support life. Most often the impacts of performance problems on the FortiGate are not typical. Or let’s say “not as an admin that is not familiar with FortiGates would expect”. The expectations vary from high delay…

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New FortiOS firmware patches released

Maybe you have already noticed (or maybe you have been informed by our Fortinet Firmware Update mailing list) that Fortinet has released of some new FortiOS patches on Feb. 7, 2024. To be more precise – all Fortinet minor and major versions that are running on Fortigate models that are…

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FortiGate: Deny-Policies for SD-WAN members

SD-WAN is a cool feature to configure redundant internet access. But it was designed with load-balancing in mind and this brings some challenges to specific use cases. As an example, while you can use SD-WAN rules to define the preferred path for a specific application/system, it won’t prevent that the…

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FortiOS 7.4.1 is released

Last Friday the first patch for FortiOS 7.4 has been released. As always with a brand new minor or major FortiOS version a lot of issues have been resolved and a lot of new features have been introduced. No Security Fabric root for FG60E/F anymore Interestingly, however, we found an…

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CVE-2023-27997 – FortiOS & FortiProxy – Heap buffer overflow in sslvpn pre-authentication

Please note the vulnerabilities in Fortinet products published in June. In particular, we would like to mention the vulnerability in FortiOS, which affects SSLVPN access and poses a major threat with a CVSSv3 score of 9.2. Fortinet PSIRT: https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-097CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-27997 Affected are FortiOS versions 6.0 to 7.2. Fortinet has already…

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New Fortinet Vulnerabilities (March 2023)

Most of you have already read about the latest release of Fortinet’s new PSIRT advisories. There are 15 new vulnerabilities for FortiOS and other products with severity level from low up to critical. We strongly recommend that you checkt the PSIRT advisories and update your Fortinet products to one of…

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