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CVE-2023-27997

CVE

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
9
occurrences
First Seen
November 17, 2025
Last Seen
September 15, 2026
API
Exploited in Wild
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Ransomware Use
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Public Exploits
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Attack Vector
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Vulnerability Overview

Exploitation Activity

Exploitation Intelligence

A critical vulnerability in FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) has been actively exploited, allowing attackers to gain full administrative access to affected systems. Organizations using FortiWeb are at risk of total control being seized by malicious actors. The flaw has been confirmed to be ex...

A cryptomining botnet has compromised 3,562 Redis servers, primarily due to missing authentication. The attack targeted a shared list of 12,966 hosts, with a significant success rate of 22-26%. The compromised servers span Redis versions from 2.8.17 to 7.2.0 and various Linux distributions, indicati...

More than 10,000 Fortinet firewalls remain exposed to a critical two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2020-12812) that has been actively exploited. This flaw, first disclosed in July 2020, continues to pose risks as many devices have not been patched, with ongoing attacks reported rec...

Fortinet has released security updates for critical vulnerabilities in FortiOS, FortiWeb, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow attackers to bypass FortiCloud SSO authentication. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719, stem from improper verification of crypt...

Public Exploits

Checking GitHub for proof-of-concept code…