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Fortinet FortiOS: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (CVE-2019-17655)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (CVE-2019-17655)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/16/2020
Created
06/26/2020
Added
06/25/2020
Modified
03/11/2021

Description

A cleartext storage in a file or on disk (CWE-313) vulnerability in FortiOS SSL VPN 6.2.0 through 6.2.2, 6.0.9 and earlier and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.9 and earlier may allow an attacker to retrieve a logged-in SSL VPN user's credentials should that attacker be able to read the session file stored on the targeted device's system.

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-6_2_3

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