medium6.5Known exploited
CVE-2019-6693
Fortinet FortiOS Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2025-06-25. Federal due date: 2025-07-16.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Impact
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).
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Fortinet | Fortios | through 5.6.10 from 6.0.0 through 6.0.6 Version 6.2.0 |