FKIE_CVE-2025-68686

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-10 16:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:59
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fortinet fortios *
fortinet fortios *
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