Fortinet FortiSandbox up to 5.0.0 Remote Backup hard-coded key

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Fortinet FortiSandbox up to 5.0.0. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Remote Backup Handler. Such manipulation leads to hard-coded key. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-54027. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Fortinet FortiSandbox up to 5.0.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Remote Backup Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded key vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-321. The use of a hard-coded cryptographic key significantly increases the possibility that encrypted data may be recovered. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability [CWE-321] in FortiSandbox version 4.4.6 and below, version 4.2.7 and below, version 4.0.5 and below, version 3.2.4 and below, version 3.1.5 and below, version 3.0.7 to 3.0.5 may allow a privileged attacker with super-admin profile and CLI access to read sensitive data via CLI.

The advisory is shared for download at fortiguard.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-54027 since 11/27/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.001.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

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Class: Hard-coded key
CWE: CWE-321 / CWE-320
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

11/27/2024 🔍
03/11/2025 +104 days 🔍
03/11/2025 +0 days 🔍
07/25/2025 +136 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: fortinet.com

Advisory: FG-IR-24-327
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-54027 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-54027
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-299312

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2025 16:31
Updated: 07/25/2025 02:01
Changes: 03/11/2025 16:31 (52), 07/25/2025 02:01 (22)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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