CVE-2025-68686
5.9, medium Known exploitedFortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 5.9, medium medium CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 29% higher than 98.1% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 10 Feb 20268 months ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 27 Jul 2026. US federal agencies had to remediate by 10 Aug 2026, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. 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.
Description
An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the patch developed for the symbolic link persistency mechanism observed in some post-exploit cases, via crafted HTTP requests. An attacker would need first to have compromised the product via another vulnerability, at filesystem level.
Details
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiOS
- Weakness
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 28 Jul 2026
- Assigner
- psirt@fortinet.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References 2
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-2026-21643 Fortinet FortiClient EMS SQL Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 94% 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.