Fortinet FortiMail Cleartext Sensitive Info Leak CVE-2025-55717
CVE-2025-55717 Published on March 10, 2026

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.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-55717 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction and user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Because the information is stored in cleartext, attackers could potentially read it. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-55717

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Fortinet Fortivoice
 
Fortinet Fortimail
 
Fortinet Fortirecorder
 

Affected Versions

Fortinet FortiVoice: Fortinet FortiMail: Fortinet FortiRecorder: