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

CVE ID : CVE-2025-48417

Published : May 21, 2025, 1:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 56 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM

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