Use of a hard-coded cryptographic key to cipher sensitive data in FortiOS configuration backup file may allow an attacker with access to the backup file to decipher the sensitive data, via knowledge of the hard-coded key. The aforementioned sensitive data includes users' passwords (except the administrator's password), private keys' passphrases and High Availability password (when set).
CVE-2019-6693
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-06-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2019-16251 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- 66 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running an affected version — derived from Shodan data (© Shodan); a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
- Linked to ransomware campaigns
No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019 — use a compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and check the vendor's advisory.
66 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running a version that maps to CVE-2019-6693, in our KEV-Exposure radar’s Shodan-derived sample.
How it counts: every 12 hours, when Shodan query credits allow, the radar runs one Shodan query per tracked product, reads up to 100 ip:port services per query, and keeps a service when its banner version matches a CISA-KEV or high-EPSS CVE; a service is dropped when neither a search nor a Shodan InternetDB port re-check has refreshed it for 21 days. A re-check that finds the port still listed by Shodan InternetDB refreshes the service without re-reading the banner, so a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open. A count is a banner-version inference over a sample, not an exploit test and not an internet-wide census, and the unit is a service, not a machine: a machine answering on two ports counts twice.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 69EG Risk 69/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity65% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 6.6%
- EPSS %ILE
- 93rd
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM.
- EG Severity
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 6.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA 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.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-007 · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6693
Published
November 21, 2019
Last Modified
August 4, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Oct 27, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-6693Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 126× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,093 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 993 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 22:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-31 21:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 21:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
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- 2026-10-30 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-29 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 19:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-28 18:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 18:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-27 18:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 18:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
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- 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.6% · 93rd percentile
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- 2026-10-07 23:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.8% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-07 20:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-07 11:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx92-84x6-67mx · GitHub CVSS 6.5
Publicly available exploits
(3 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (3 GitHub PoCs). No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system.
- GitHub PoCsaladandonionrings/cve-2019-6693Published Dec 8, 2023
An authorized remote user with access or knowledge of the standard encryption key can gain access and decrypt the FortiOS backup files and all non-administator passwords, private keys and High Availability passwords.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsynacktiv/CVE-2020-9289Published Jun 30, 2023
Decrypt reversible secrets encrypted using the default hardcoded key related to CVE-2020-9289 on FortiAnalyzer/FortiManager (the only difference with CVE-2019-6693 is the encryption routine).
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCgquere/CVE-2019-6693Published Dec 21, 2021
Decrypt FortiGate configuration secrets
Open source ↗
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