CVE-2019-6697: Fortinet FortiOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Improper Neutralization of Input vulnerability affecting FortiGate version 6.2.0 through 6.2.1, 6.0.0 through 6.0.6 in the hostname parameter of a DHCP packet under DHCP monitor page may allow an unauthenticated attacker in the same network as the FortiGate to perform a Stored Cross Site Scripting attack (XSS) by sending a crafted DHCP packet.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS: from 6.0.0, before 6.0.7 (fixed in 6.0.7); from 6.2.0, before 6.2.2 (fixed in 6.2.2)

Published 2025-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.