CVE-2018-9195

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-9195
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-21 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-04 13:44:00 UTC
DescriptionUse of a hardcoded cryptographic key in the FortiGuard services communication protocol may allow a Man in the middle with knowledge of the key to eavesdrop on and modify information (URL/SPAM services in FortiOS 5.6, and URL/SPAM/AV services in FortiOS 6.0.; URL rating in FortiClient) sent and received from Fortiguard severs by decrypting these messages. Affected products include FortiClient for Windows 6.0.6 and below, FortiOS 6.0.7 and below, FortiClient for Mac OS 6.2.1 and below.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-798

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fortinet Forticlient All All All All
Application Fortinet Forticlient All All All All
Operating System Fortinet Fortios All All All All

References

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Hardcoded cryptographic key in the FortiGuard services communication protocol | FortiGuard CONFIRM fortiguard.com Third Party Advisory
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