CVE-2025-55018

An inconsistent interpretation of http requests ('http request smuggling') vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, For

Severity
Medium 5.2
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
30.3th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Vendor advisory field
Published
Feb 10, 2026
Assigned by fortinet

Description

An inconsistent interpretation of http requests ('http request smuggling') vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4.3 through 6.4.16 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to smuggle an unlogged http request through the firewall policies via a specially crafted header

Weakness: CWE-444

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Fortinet FortiOS Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (2)
  • Fortinet · FortiOS
  • Siemens · RUGGEDCOM APE1808

Credit

Discovered by Daobing Li from Fortinet R&D Team

Vendor remediation

Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.6.1 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.4.10 or above

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