Fortinet has released 18 security advisories to address a range of security vulnerabilities in multiple products. Three of the advisories address two high severity vulnerabilities in FortiClient for Windows and one high severity vulnerability in FortiOS affecting SSLVPN sessions.
FortiClient and FortiOS provide an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, a virtual private network (VPN) solution, and other security functionality. In addition to the three vulnerabilities highlighted below, full details for other affected products can be found at the Fortinet Security Advisories website
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