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CERTFR-2019-AVI-584

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Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Fortinet FortiOS. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à l'intégrité des données et une atteinte à la confidentialité des données.

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Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
Fortinet	FortiOS	FortiOS versions antérieures à 5.6.11
Fortinet	FortiOS	FortiOS versions 6.0.x antérieures à 6.0.7
Fortinet	FortiOS	FortiOS versions 6.2.x antérieures à 6.2.1

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2019-6693 (GCVE-0-2019-6693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-21 15:08 – Updated: 2026-08-04 03:55

Summary

Use of a hard-coded cryptographic key to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file may allow an attacker with access to the backup file to decipher the sensitive data, via knowledge of the hard-coded key. The aforementioned sensitive data includes users' passwords (except the administrator's password), private keys' passphrases and High Availability password (when set).

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-23 00:00 UTC

CWE

Information disclosure
CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Assigner

fortinet mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-007	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Fortinet	FortiGate	Affected: 5.6.9 and below Affected: 6.0.5 and below Affected: 6.2.0

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