CVE-2024-52964 Path traversal in FortiManager

What is CVE-2024-52964?

CVE-2024-52964 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimanager, published on 12 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiManager version 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.5, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and below 7.0.13 & FortiManager Cloud version 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.5 and before 7.2.9 allows an authenticated remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via FGFM crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52964?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortimanager, Fortinet Fortimanager Cloud.

How do I fix CVE-2024-52964?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52964 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-2024-52964 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52964 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortimanager

• CVE-2024-47575 Fortinet FortiManager Missing Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-3613 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6695 Security feature bypass in Fortinet FortiManager Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-17654 Cross-site request forgery in Fortinet FortiManager High 8.8
• CVE-2015-3611 Command injection in n/a High 8.8

All Fortinet Fortimanager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-535p-g7m4-r8xm.