FortiSIEM External Authentication (AES) encrypted password reflected in GUI

Summary

An information exposure vulnerability in the external authentication profile form of FortiSIEM may allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve the external authentication password via the HTML source code.This could potentially aggravate attacks targeting the authenticated admin session, should they exist (XSS, social engineering, proxy caching...).

Affected Products

FortiSIEM version 5.2.2 and below

Solutions

Please upgrade to FortiSIEM version 5.2.5 and above

Acknowledgement

Fortinet is pleased to thank Yavuz YKSEL security researcher for reporting this vulnerability under responsible disclosure.