3rd party component upgrade required for security reasons: jQuery 4 new CVEs disclosed on Jan 18, 2018 (latest release v1.12.4/v2.2.4/v3.3.1)

Summary

FortiSwitch is vulnerable to multiple Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks present in the jQuery javascript library

CVE-2015-9251:
jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

CVE-2012-6708:
jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

Affected Products

CVE-2015-9251
FortiSwitch 6.0.0 to 6.0.1, 3.6.8 and below.
CVE-2012-6708
FortiSwitch 3.6.8 and below.

Solutions

Upgrade to 6.0.2 or 3.6.9