CVE-2025-68686: Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
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.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability.
- Who is affected
- Remote unauthenticated attackers who have previously compromised the product via another vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to the critical severity and confirmed exploitation status.
- Action
- Apply the latest patches to FortiOS to mitigate this vulnerability.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2025-68686Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 67% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-68686 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Same CVEs, other sources
How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.
- high[UPDATE] [high] Fortinet FortiOS: Multiple Vulnerabilitiescert-bund
- unknownexploitedFortinet security advisory (AV26-109) – Update 1cccs
- highexploitedCISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalogcisa
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