CVE-2025-68686

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, Fort

Severity
Medium 5.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Yes — in CISA KEV
Added Jul 27, 2026
EPSS
0.296
98.1th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor advisory field
Published
Feb 10, 2026
Assigned by fortinet

Description

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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Fortinet FortiOS Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Fortinet · FortiOS

Credit

Fortinet is pleased to thank Peter Gabaldon from ITRESIT ( https://itresit.es/en/home-en/) for reporting this vulnerability under responsible disclosure.

Vendor remediation

Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.6.2 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.4.7 or above

Something wrong here?