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CISA KEV: Fortinet FortiOS — Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability

·Source: CISA KEV

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Executive Summary

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.

Analysis

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. Added to CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-07-27. Remediation due: 2026-08-10.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2025-68686
NVDMITRE CVE
Source Attribution

Originally published by CISA KEV on Jul 27, 2026. Verified by: CISA.

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