CVE-2020-15942 Information disclosure in Fortinet FortiWeb

What is CVE-2020-15942?

CVE-2020-15942 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 12 Apr 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An information disclosure vulnerability in Web Vulnerability Scan profile of Fortinet's FortiWeb version 6.2.x below 6.2.4 and version 6.3.x below 6.3.5 may allow a remote authenticated attacker to read the password used by the FortiWeb scanner to access the device defined in the scan profile.

Weakness: CWE-522

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15942?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15942?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-15942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-15942 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15942 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortiweb

• CVE-2025-25257 Fortinet FortiWeb SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2025-64446 Fortinet FortiWeb Path Traversal Exploited Critical 9.4
• CVE-2025-58034 Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection Exploited Medium 6.7
• CVE-2020-29015 SQL injection in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-29016 Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8

All Fortinet Fortiweb vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-33m4-frvp-3wr7.