{"id":"CVE-2016-7541","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-7541","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:48:12.883Z","title":"Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode.","description":"Long lived sessions in Fortinet FortiGate devices with FortiOS 5.x before 5.4.0 could violate a security policy during IPS signature updates when the FortiGate's IPSengine is configured in flow mode. All FortiGate versions with IPS configured in proxy mode (the default mode) are not affected.","published":"2017-03-30T14:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:53:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@fortinet.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-254"],"affected":["fortinet/fortios"],"epss":{"score":0.00952,"percentile":0.61133,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.95%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-088","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94477","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-088","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94477","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7541","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}