CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise.  

With recent and ongoing exploitation events Fortinet Releases Security Advisory for Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability Affecting FortiWeb Products, a reduced remediation timeframe of one week is recommended. See BOD 23-02: Mitigating the Risk from Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces for steps to reduce the attack surface created by devices accessible to the public internet. 

Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the KEV Catalog as a living list of known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise. BOD 22-01 requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect FCEB networks against active threats. See the BOD 22-01 Fact Sheet for more information. 

Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of KEV Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practice. CISA will continue to add vulnerabilities to the catalog that meet the specified criteria.