CVE-2025-61624
Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, added 2026-10-16. Federal due date: 2026-10-19.
Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Impact
FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain a path traversal vulnerability that may allow an authenticated attacker with admin profile and at least read-write permissions to write or delete arbitrary files via specific CLI commands.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Fortinet | Fortios | from 6.4.0 before 7.4.10 from 7.6.0 before 7.6.5 |
| Fortinet | Fortipam | from 1.0.0 before 1.7.1 |
| Fortinet | Fortiproxy | from 7.0.0 before 7.4.12 from 7.6.0 before 7.6.5 |
| Fortinet | Fortiswitchmanager | from 7.0.0 before 7.0.7 from 7.2.0 before 7.2.8 |
| Siemens | Ruggedcom Ape1808 Firmware | All versions |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- CISA KEV catalog
- https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-26-122
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-975644.html
- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/fortimanager-cve-2024-47575-peerstitch-malware/#post-188095-_guyq53ar8k05
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-61624