An information exposure vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb 6.2.0 CLI and earlier may allow an authenticated user to view sensitive informat…

published 2020-03-13 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-6978

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 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

An information exposure vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb 6.2.0 CLI and earlier may allow an authenticated user to view sensitive information being logged via diagnose debug commands.

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CISA SSVC

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

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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

Fortinet Fortinet FortiWeb

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Technology feeds

Fortinet rss critical rss

References

fortiguard.com /advisory/FG-IR-19-269
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-16157
NVD CVE-2019-16157

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