CVE-2019-17655 Information disclosure in Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy

What is CVE-2019-17655?

CVE-2019-17655 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 16 Jun 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A cleartext storage in a file or on disk (CWE-313) vulnerability in FortiOS SSL VPN 6.2.0 through 6.2.2, 6.0.9 and earlier and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.9 and earlier may allow an attacker to retrieve a logged-in SSL VPN user's credentials should that attacker be able to read the session file stored on the targeted device's system.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17655?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17655?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-17655 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-17655 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17655 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

• CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-55591 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-42475 Fortinet FortiOS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.3

All Fortinet Fortios vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2v5p-gw86-2385.