Fortinet FortiVoice/FortiMail/FortiRecorder up to 7.0.6/7.2.0 cleartext storage

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Fortinet FortiVoice, FortiMail and FortiRecorder up to 7.0.6/7.2.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in cleartext storage. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-55717. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Fortinet FortiVoice, FortiMail and FortiRecorder up to 7.0.6/7.2.0. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability [CWE-312] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiMail 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, FortiMail 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, FortiMail 7.2.0 through 7.2.7, FortiMail 7.0.0 through 7.0.8, FortiRecorder 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, FortiRecorder 7.0 all versions, FortiRecorder 6.4 all versions, FortiVoice 7.2.0, FortiVoice 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 may allow an authenticated malicious administrator to obtain user's secrets via CLI commands. Practical exploitability is limited by conditions out of the control of the attacker: An admin must log in to the targeted device.

The advisory is shared for download at fortiguard.fortinet.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-55717 since 08/14/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1555.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Fortinet

Name

• FortiMail
• FortiRecorder
• FortiVoice

Version

• 7.0
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.1
• 7.2.0

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.fortinet.com/

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