CVE-2019-6693 — Fortinet FortiOS Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability

CVE-2019-6693 (Fortinet FortiOS) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2025-06-25. Used in ransomware. Fortinet FortiOS contains a use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability that could allow an attacker to… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2019-6693 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2025-06-25. Fortinet FortiOS contains a use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file via knowledge of the hard-coded key.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
Fortinet
Affected product
FortiOS
Added to CISA KEV
2025-06-25
US federal remediation due date
2025-07-16
Ransomware association
Known
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-798

Remediation: the required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

A catalog entry tells you a vulnerability is being exploited somewhere. It does not tell you whether it matters in your estate, who owns the fix, or what evidence an auditor will ask for later. That is the work VulnTrek does: it takes findings from the tools you already run, decides which exposure actually matters, routes it to an owner, keeps remediation human-approved and retains the lineage as evidence.

Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.