Bugtraq: Re: Backdoor in Fortinet´s firewall Fortigate

[Michael J McCafferty <mike () m5computersecurity com>]

This is a documented feature of the FortiGate and FortiLog devices.
You must have a local serial connection. So, this is not remotely exploitble. If
someone has physical access to your firewall to make a serial connection, then
you have plenty of other problems too.

For reference:
http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?SID=&Lang=1&id=407
http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=837&Lang=1

Mike

Quoting Johan Andersson <andersson () one se>:

> If you have console access to this box, you are able to get root access 
> or more by using the Username: maintainer
> Password: pbcpbn[here should you type the serialnr. of the box, the 
> characters should be in Capital letters.]
> FortiOS: 2.x
>
> Regards
> Johan Andersson
> Atea Security, Sweden
> Phone: +46-709-19 71 76
> Mail: johan.andersson () atea com

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