CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-9195

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2019-11-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

Use of a hardcoded cryptographic key in the FortiGuard services communication protocol may allow a Man in the middle with knowledge of the key to eavesdrop on and modify information (URL/SPAM services in FortiOS 5.6, and URL/SPAM/AV services in FortiOS 6.0.; URL rating in FortiClient) sent and received from Fortiguard severs by decrypting these messages. Affected products include FortiClient for Windows 6.0.6 and below, FortiOS 6.0.7 and below, FortiClient for Mac OS 6.2.1 and below.

Affected configurations

• fortinet forticlient (<= 6.0.6) • fortinet forticlient (<= 6.2.1) • fortinet fortios (<= 6.0.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References