QUANTUM THREAT INTELLIGENCE
Advisory AV26-1037 of October 13, 2026 covers FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud before 7.6.5 and 7.4.7, FortiAnalyzer before 7.6.5, 7.4.8 and 7.2.12, plus FortiMail, FortiSIEM and FortiSandbox. The fixes address arbitrary file read and write through SQL injection, an arbitrary file write in a gRPC service, and improper access control in the web management interface. FortiManager holds the configurations and trust material for every firewall it manages, which is exactly what the PEERSTITCH intrusion took from a telecom service provider this month; patch the management plane first.
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