CVE-2019-5593 Information disclosure in Fortinet FortiOS

What is CVE-2019-5593?

CVE-2019-5593 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 23 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper permission or value checking in the CLI console may allow a non-privileged user to obtain Fortinet FortiOS plaint text private keys of system's builtin local certificates via unsetting the keys encryption password in FortiOS 6.2.0, 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.10 and below or for user uploaded local certificates via setting an empty password in FortiOS 6.2.1, 6.2.0, 6.0.6 and below.

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5593?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5593?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5593 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-5593 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5593 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-3hjp-23xj-gxx4.