CVE-2021-24005: Fortinet Fortiauthenticator

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Usage of hard-coded cryptographic keys to encrypt configuration files and debug logs in FortiAuthenticator versions before 6.3.0 may allow an attacker with access to the files or the CLI configuration to decrypt the sensitive data, via knowledge of the hard-coded key.

Affected products

• Fortinet Fortiauthenticator: from 6.0.0, before 6.3.0 (fixed in 6.3.0)

Published 2021-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.