CVE-2025-68686

MEDIUMCVSS 5.9Known Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934 ; BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686

Remediation deadline: August 10, 2026

Description

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.

Timeline

Published:February 10th, 2026 4:16 PM

Last modified:July 28th, 2026 5:17 AM

Added to KEV:July 27th, 2026

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 5.9 (MEDIUM)

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

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

fortinet

Products

fortios

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute