CVE•Published 2019-11-21•Modified 2026-08-04•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2019-6693Fortinet · Fortios

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

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

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 8% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-798Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Description

Use of a hard-coded cryptographic key to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file may allow an attacker with access to the backup file to decipher the sensitive data, via knowledge of the hard-coded key. The aforementioned sensitive data includes users' passwords (except the administrator's password), private keys' passphrases and High Availability password (when set).

Timeline

Published 2019-11-21

Modified 2026-08-04

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2019-6693

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · OS

os:"Fortios"

Hosts Shodan identified as running Fortios.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2019-6693

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2019-6693