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CVE-2019-6698
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in FortiRecorder all versions below 2.7.4 may allow an unauthenticated attacker with knowledge…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in FortiRecorder all versions below 2.7.4 may allow an unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the aforementioned credentials and network access to FortiCameras to take control of those, provided they are managed by a FortiRecorder device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fortinet
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Fortinet FortiRecorder
- affected FortiRecorder all versions below 2.7.4
References
References1
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-19-185 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-16256 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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