CVE-2025-68686

medium · 5.9Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2026-07-27Remediation due 2026-08-10

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.

5.9

CVSS

29.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

98th

EPSS percentile

2026-02-10

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
fortinet	fortios	>= 6.4.0, < 7.4.7
fortinet	fortios	>= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2

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References

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