CVE-2020-6648 Information disclosure in FortiGate and FortiProxy

What is CVE-2020-6648?

CVE-2020-6648 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 21 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in FortiOS command line interface in versions 6.2.4 and earlier and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.9 and earlier may allow an authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information such as users passwords by connecting to FortiGate CLI and executing the "diag sys ha checksum show" command.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6648?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2020-6648?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-6648 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-6648 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6648 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
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Also known as GHSA-qp33-r3q7-6xc4.