CVE•Published 2020-08-14•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2019-5591
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CVSS v3.1
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS percentile
97
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 3% of all CVEs
Description
A Default Configuration vulnerability in FortiOS may allow an unauthenticated attacker on the same subnet to intercept sensitive information by impersonating the LDAP server.
Timeline
Published 2020-08-14
External references
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Shodan · OS
os:"Fortios"Hosts Shodan identified as running Fortios.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
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GitHub code
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Known PoCs on GitHub (5)
CVE-2019-55915 repos
Ostorlab/KEVunknown
Ostorlab KEV: One-command to detect most remotely known exploitable vulnerabilities. Sourced from CISA KEV, Google's Tsunami, Ostorlab's Asteroid and Bug Bounty programs.
ARPSyndicate/cve-scoresunknown
EPSS & VEDAS Score Aggregator for CVEs
hugefiver/mystarsunknown
ayewo/fortios-ldap-mitm-poc-CVE-2019-5591Python
The default configuration of LDAP on FortiOS v6.0.x to v6.2.0 does not check server identity for LDAP/S leading to MITM attacks. This PoC demos full exfiltration of credentials sen…
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