An information exposure vulnerability in the external authentication profile form of FortiSIEM 5.2.2 and earlier may allow an authenticated…

published 2020-01-07 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16258

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits: 0; none known

An information exposure vulnerability in the external authentication profile form of FortiSIEM 5.2.2 and earlier may allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve the external authentication password via the HTML source code.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

fortinet fortisiem 5.2.5

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-23)

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

n/a Fortinet FortiSIEM

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Technology feeds

Fortinet rss critical rss

References

fortiguard.com /advisory/FG-IR-19-100
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-6700
NVD CVE-2019-6700

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Summary