CVE-2021-26091
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-24 15:37
Modified
2025-03-31 18:11
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C
Summary
A use of a cryptographically weak pseudo-random number generator vulnerability in the authenticator of the Identity Based Encryption service of FortiMail 6.4.0 through 6.4.4, and 6.2.0 through 6.2.7 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to infer parts of users authentication tokens and reset their credentials.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-21-031
Impacted products
FortinetFortiMail
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