Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability. This 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.
Read at CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiOS
- CISA KEV
- listed
- Exploitation
- observed in the wild
- Fix
- available
- Exposure class
- Edge / VPN / firewall
Why it ranks 63 (Critical)
- CISA KEV listed
- Exposed product class: edge / VPN / firewall
- Widely deployed vendor product (Fortinet)
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2025-68686 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia · KEV
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