QID 43980

Date Published: 2023-02-22

QID 43980: Fortinet FortiOS Information disclosure Vulnerability (FG-IR-20-014)

A clear text storage of sensitive information (CWE-312) vulnerability in both FortiGate and FortiAuthenticator may allow a local unauthorized party to retrieve the Fortinet private keys used to establish secure communication with both Apple Push Notification and Google Cloud Messaging services, via accessing the files on the filesystem.

Making this QID as practice as we cannot add ftm-push status check in signature.

Affected Versions:
FortiOS version 6.4.0 through 6.4.1
FortiOS version 6.2.0 through 6.2.9
FortiOS version 6.0.0 through 6.0.13

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated):
Detection checks for vulnerable version of FortiOS.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to Information disclosure

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Fortinet has released patch addressing the vulnerability. For more information please refer to FG-IR-20-014
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 43980

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    FG-IR-20-014 URL Logo www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-20-014