CVE-2024-40588 Path traversal in FortiCamera

What is CVE-2024-40588?

CVE-2024-40588 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet FortiCamera, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple relative path traversal vulnerabilities [CWE-23] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiCamera 2.1 all versions, FortiCamera 2.0.0, FortiCamera 1.1 all versions, FortiCamera 1.0 all versions, FortiMail 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiMail 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, FortiMail 7.2 all versions, FortiMail 7.0 all versions, FortiMail 6.4 all versions, FortiNDR 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiNDR 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiNDR 7.2 all versions, FortiNDR 7.1 all versions, FortiNDR 7.0 all versions, FortiRecorder 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, FortiRecorder 7.0.0 through 7.0.4, FortiRecorder 6.4 all versions, FortiVoice 7.0.0 through 7.0.3, FortiVoice 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, FortiVoice 6.0 all versions may allow a privileged attacker to read files from the underlying filesystem via crafted CLI requests.

Weakness: CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-40588?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fortinet Forticamera Firmware, Fortinet Fortimail, Fortinet Fortindr, Fortinet Fortirecorder, Fortinet Fortivoice.

How do I fix CVE-2024-40588?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-40588 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-2024-40588 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40588 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiCamera

• CVE-2025-32756 Fortinet Multiple Products Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hxwc-32r9-7287.