CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-15704 — Fortinet Forticlient security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

A clear text storage of sensitive information vulnerability in FortiClient for Mac may allow a local attacker to read sensitive information logged in the console window when the user connects to an SSL VPN Gateway.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2019-11-21
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-311

Affected products

  • fortinet / forticlient
  • fortinet / forticlient / 6.2.0

Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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