CVE-2025-48417 – Fortinet SSL Hard-Coded Private Key Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-48417 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified
    by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    May. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • New CVE Received
    by 551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf

    May. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The certificate and private key used for providing transport layer security for connections to the web interface (TCP port 443) is hard-coded in the firmware and are shipped with the update files. An attacker can use the private key to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against users of the admin interface. The files are located in /etc/ssl (e.g. salia.local.crt, salia.local.key and salia.local.pem). There is no option to upload/configure custom TLS certificates.
    Added CWE CWE-321
    Added Reference https://r.sec-consult.com/echarge
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