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Fortinet FortiOS: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (CVE-2020-6648)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (CVE-2020-6648)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/21/2020
Created
10/29/2020
Added
10/29/2020
Modified
06/16/2022

Description

A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in FortiOS command line interface in versions 6.2.4 and earlier and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.9 and earlier may allow an authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information such as users passwords by connecting to FortiGate CLI and executing the "diag sys ha checksum show" command.

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-6_0_12
  • fortios-upgrade-6_2_5

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