Fortinet Fortigate Insertion of Sensitive 2FA Information in logs and debug command (FG-IR-24-452)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270400

Synopsis

Fortinet Firewall is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of Fortigate installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FG-IR-24-452 advisory.

- A insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4 all versions, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.13, FortiProxy 7.2 all versions, FortiProxy 7.0 all versions may allow attacker to information disclosure via <insert attack vector here> (CVE-2025-31514)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

For 6.4.x / 7.0.x / 7.2.x / 7.4.x, see vendor advisory. For 7.6.x, upgrade to Fortigate version 7.6.4 or later.

See Also

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-452

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270400

File Name: fortigate_FG-IR-24-452.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 10/14/2025

Updated: 6/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31514

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fortinet:fortios

Required KB Items: Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31514

IAVA: 2025-A-0770-S