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title: "Security digest: November 19, 2019"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2019-11-19/
description: "November 19, 2019 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (FortiOS CVE-2019-6693: Hard-Coded Backup Key Now…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2019-11-19
date_modified: 2026-10-23
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: November 19, 2019

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: FortiOS CVE-2019-6693: Hard-Coded Backup Key Now in KEV . FortiGate owners who have never enabled private-data-encryption, and anyone whose unencrypted config backups have left the device, through file shares, tickets, forums, repositories or an earlier FortiOS compromise.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [FortiOS CVE-2019-6693: Hard-Coded Backup Key Now in KEV](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/fortios-hard-coded-config-backup-key-cve-2019-6693-kev/index.md): Upgrading alone does not fix this: unless private-data-encryption is enabled, every FortiGate config file still protects its secrets with a key attackers know, so check the setting and rotate anything in leaked configs.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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