CVE-2022-30299 Path traversal in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2022-30299?

CVE-2022-30299 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 16 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in the API of FortiWeb 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, 6.3.0 through 6.3.19, 6.4 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.1 all versions, 6.0 all versions may allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve specific parts of files from the underlying file system via specially crafted web requests.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-30299?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2022-30299?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-30299 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-30299 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-30299 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortiweb

• CVE-2025-25257 Fortinet FortiWeb SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2025-64446 Fortinet FortiWeb Path Traversal Exploited Critical 9.4
• CVE-2025-58034 Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection Exploited Medium 6.7
• CVE-2020-29015 SQL injection in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-29016 Memory corruption in Fortinet FortiWeb Critical 9.8

All Fortinet Fortiweb vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-37g8-cx8g-rxvj.