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title: "Security digest: February 8, 2024"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2024-02-08/
description: "February 8, 2024 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (FortiOS SSL VPN Pre-Auth RCE (CVE-2024-21762)); 1 critical advisory (PyPI). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2024-02-08
date_modified: 2026-10-21
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: February 8, 2024

1 editorial brief and 1 critical advisory.

## Take stock

- Act now: FortiOS SSL VPN Pre-Auth RCE (CVE-2024-21762) . Owners of FortiOS 6.0 through 7.4.2 or FortiProxy 1.0 through 7.4.2 devices with SSL VPN enabled, particularly where the VPN portal is internet-facing.
- PyPI: 1 critical advisory ( DIRAC , dirac ). Check with pip-audit (or: pip show <package>) .
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Act now** [FortiOS SSL VPN Pre-Auth RCE (CVE-2024-21762)](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/fortios-ssl-vpn-out-of-bounds-write-rce/index.md): Any FortiGate or FortiProxy with SSL VPN enabled on an unfixed build is exposed to unauthenticated remote code execution that has been exploited; upgrade or disable SSL VPN today.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

- [CVE-2024-24825](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-24825/index.md) DIRAC's TokenManager does not check permissions on cached tokens — PyPI DIRAC >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.37 → 8.0.37; PyPI dirac >= 0, < 8.0.37 → 8.0.37

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