CVE-2019-5593

MEDIUM

Fortinet Fortios < 5.6.10 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

Improper permission or value checking in the CLI console may allow a non-privileged user to obtain Fortinet FortiOS plaint text private keys of system's builtin local certificates via unsetting the keys encryption password in FortiOS 6.2.0, 6.0.0 to 6.0.6, 5.6.10 and below or for user uploaded local certificates via setting an empty password in FortiOS 6.2.1, 6.2.0, 6.0.6 and below.

References (1)

[Mitigation, Vendor Advisory] https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-134

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-755

Status published

Affected Products (2)

fortinet/fortios < 5.6.10

fortinet/fortios

Timeline

Published Jan 23, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026