CVE-2019-6693Medium· 6.5▾ Midnight⚠ Exploited in the wildPoC availableUse 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 aforementio…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 35.8 · likelihood 1.2 · exploitation 25 · ransomware 5
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Aug 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Federal remediation due Jul 16, 2025
Last analysed / modified upstream
5.7%
4 GitHub repos
5.7% → 5.8%
Added to the CISA catalog on Jun 25, 2025. Federal remediation due Jul 16, 2025. View catalog ↗
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).
fortios <= 5.6.10fortios >= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.6fortios = 6.2.0Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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