CVE-2019-6693

MEDIUMCVSS 6.5Known Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-007 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6693

Remediation deadline: July 16, 2025

Ransomware use: Known

Description

Fortinet FortiOS contains a use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file via knowledge of the hard-coded key.

Timeline

Published:November 21st, 2019 4:15 PM

Last modified:August 4th, 2026 5:16 AM

Added to KEV:June 25th, 2025

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

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

CVSS v2: 4.0

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

fortinet

Products

fortios

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-798

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-007Mitigation
https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-007Mitigation
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-6693US Government Resource

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute