{"id":227487,"date":"2025-12-20T01:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/over-25000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:17:54","slug":"over-25000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/over-25000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Over 25,000 FortiCloud SSO devices exposed to remote attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-25000-forticloud-sso-devices-exposed-to-remote-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Internet security watchdog Shadowserver has found over 25,000 Fortinet devices exposed online with FortiCloud SSO enabled, amid ongoing attacks targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Fortinet noted on December 9th, when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fortinet-warns-of-critical-forticloud-sso-login-auth-bypass-flaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">patched the security flaw<\/a> tracked as CVE-2025\u201359718 (FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiSwitchManager) and CVE-2025\u201359719 (FortiWeb), that the vulnerable FortiCloud SSO login feature is not enabled until admins register the device with the company\u2019s FortiCare support service.<\/p>\n<p>As cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-exploit-newly-patched-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on Monday<\/a>, the vulnerability is now actively exploited to compromise admin accounts via malicious single sign-on (SSO) logins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet security watchdog Shadowserver has found over 25,000 Fortinet devices exposed online with FortiCloud SSO enabled, amid ongoing attacks targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. Fortinet noted on December 9th, when it patched the security flaw tracked as CVE-2025\u201359718 (FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiSwitchManager) and CVE-2025\u201359719 (FortiWeb), that the vulnerable FortiCloud SSO login feature is not enabled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}