CVE-2025-22254 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2025-22254?

CVE-2025-22254 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 10 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, FortiOS 6.4.0 through 6.4.15, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiWeb 7.4.0 through 7.4.6 allows an authenticated attacker with at least read-only admin permissions to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22254?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy, Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22254?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22254 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-22254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22254 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Fortios

• CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40684 Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-55591 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-42475 Fortinet FortiOS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.3

All Fortinet Fortios vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-r2j8-539m-45q5.