CVE-2024-55597 Path traversal in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2024-55597?

CVE-2024-55597 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 11 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in Fortinet FortiWeb versions 7.0.0 through 7.6.0 allows attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-55597?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2024-55597?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-55597 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-2024-55597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-55597 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
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Also known as GHSA-gh94-277f-f7j3.