CVE-2024-33504 Hardcoded credentials in FortiManager

What is CVE-2024-33504?

CVE-2024-33504 is a low-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimanager, published on 11 Feb 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A use of hard-coded cryptographic key to encrypt sensitive data vulnerability [CWE-321] in FortiManager 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.5, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9, 7.0 all versions, 6.4 all versions may allow an attacker with JSON API access permissions to decrypt some secrets even if the 'private-data-encryption' setting is enabled.

Weakness: CWE-321

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-33504?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortimanager, Fortinet Fortimanager Cloud.

How do I fix CVE-2024-33504?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-33504 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-33504 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-33504 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortimanager

• CVE-2024-47575 Fortinet FortiManager Missing Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-3613 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6695 Security feature bypass in Fortinet FortiManager Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-17654 Cross-site request forgery in Fortinet FortiManager High 8.8
• CVE-2015-3611 Command injection in n/a High 8.8

All Fortinet Fortimanager vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-6rfg-cmrr-c9j6.