FortiOS DRBG unsufficient entropy (FG-IR-19-186)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130209

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

An Insufficient Entropy in PRNG vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 6.2.1 and below for device not enable hardware TRNG token and models not support builtin TRNG seed allows attacker to theoretically recover the long term ECDSA secret in a TLS client with a RSA handshake and mutual ECDSA authentication via the help of flush+reload side channel attacks in FortiGate VM models only.

Solution

Upgrade to Fortinet FortiOS version 6.2.1 or later.

See Also

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-186

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130209

File Name: fortios_FG-IR-19-186.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 10/25/2019

Updated: 9/16/2022

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15703

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15703