# CVE-2020-15935: Information disclosure in Fortinet FortiADC

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

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:X/RC:X`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Nov 2021
- **Updated:** 25 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j26f-vqgh-5h66

## 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 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15935?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiADC

- [CVE-2018-13374](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-13374/): Fortinet FortiOS and FortiADC Improper Access Control (medium 4.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-38374](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38374/): Cross-site scripting in Fortinet FortiADC (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-37933](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37933/): Cross-site scripting in FortiADC (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2022-39947](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39947/): Command injection in FortiADC (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2022-35851](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35851/): Cross-site scripting in Fortinet FortiADC (high 8.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-15935 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Fortinet FortiADC. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15935/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15935/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15935
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15935
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15935

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