# CVE-2024-40585: Information disclosure in FortiAnalyzer

> Low-privileged users can retrieve certificate private keys and encrypted passwords from event logs in FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R`)
- **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:** 14 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 14 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wjm4-q3m2-wf4h

## What is CVE-2024-40585?

CVE-2024-40585 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortianalyzer, published on 14 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerabilities [CWE-532] in FortiManager version 7.4.0, version 7.2.3 and below, version 7.0.8 and below, version 6.4.12 and below, version 6.2.11 and below and FortiAnalyzer version 7.4.0, version 7.2.3 and below, version 7.0.8 and below, version 6.4.12 and below, version 6.2.11 and below eventlog may allow any low privileged user with access to event log section to retrieve certificate private key and encrypted password logged as system log.

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-40585?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Fortinet Fortianalyzer, Fortinet Fortimanager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-40585?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-40585 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-40585 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40585 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortianalyzer

- [CVE-2026-24858](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-24858/): Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 9.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-25610](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25610/): Memory corruption in FortiAnalyzer (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2021-32603](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-32603/): Server-side request forgery in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-12817](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12817/): Cross-site scripting in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-48886](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-48886/): Auth bypass in FortiOS (high 8.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-40585 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-40585 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortianalyzer, published on 14 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40585 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fortinet Fortianalyzer. 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-2024-40585/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40585/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40585
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40585
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40585

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40585/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.