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CVE-2019-6693
CWE-798
High
80.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Use of a hard-coded cryptographic key to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file may allow an attacker with access to the backup file to decipher the sensitive data, via knowledge of the hard-coded key. The aforementioned sensitive data includes users' passwords (except the administrator's password), private keys' passphrases and High Availability password (when set).
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 6.5
- Medium · v3.1
- EPSS
- 5.82%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jun 2025
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-798
- Published
- 21 Nov 2019
- Last modified 4 Aug 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time