CVE-2023-23784 Path traversal in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2023-23784?

CVE-2023-23784 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 16 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A relative path traversal in Fortinet FortiWeb version 7.0.0 through 7.0.2, FortiWeb version 6.3.6 through 6.3.20, FortiWeb 6.4 all versions allows attacker to information disclosure via specially crafted web requests.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23784?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2023-23784?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23784 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-2023-23784 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23784 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-gr3c-hqp8-55qj.