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CVE-2025-59718

9.8, critical Known exploited

Fortinet Multiple Products Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Vulnerability

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
68% higher than 99.3% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
9 Dec 202510 months ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 16 Dec 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 23 Dec 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

A improper verification of cryptographic signature vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.17, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.10, FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.14, FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.21, FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0 through 7.2.6, FortiSwitchManager 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass the FortiCloud SSO login authentication via a crafted SAML response message.

Details

Vendor
Fortinet and 1 more
Product
FortiSwitchManager
Weakness
CWE-347 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
psirt@fortinet.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 4

Advisories 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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  • CVE-2025-68686 Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability KEV EPSS 29% 5.9, medium
  • CVE-2026-21643 Fortinet FortiClient EMS SQL Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 94% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2026-24858 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability KEV EPSS 86% 9.8, critical

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.