CVE-2020-15935 Information disclosure in Fortinet FortiADC

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Remote authenticated attackers can retrieve sensitive LDAP passwords and RADIUS secrets from the FortiADC GUI by deobfuscating stored fields.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-15935?

CVE-2020-15935 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiADC, published on 2 Nov 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A cleartext storage of sensitive information in GUI in FortiADC versions 5.4.3 and below, 6.0.0 and below may allow a remote authenticated attacker to retrieve some sensitive information such as users LDAP passwords and RADIUS shared secret by deobfuscating the passwords entry fields.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15935?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiadc.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15935?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-15935 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-15935 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15935 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j26f-vqgh-5h66.

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