FKIE_CVE-2018-9195

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-11-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:06
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-18-100Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-18-100Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fortinet forticlient *
fortinet forticlient *
fortinet fortios *
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