CVE-2025-22258 Memory corruption in FortiOS

What is CVE-2025-22258?

CVE-2025-22258 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 14 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A heap-based buffer overflow in Fortinet FortiSRA 1.5.0, 1.4.0 through 1.4.2, FortiPAM 1.5.0, 1.4.0 through 1.4.2, 1.3.0 through 1.3.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.0 through 1.1.2, 1.0.0 through 1.0.3, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, 7.0.2 through 7.0.16, FortiSwitchManager 7.2.1 through 7.2.5 allows attackers to escalate their privilege via specially crafted http requests.

Weakness: CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22258?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortipam, Fortinet Fortiproxy, Fortinet Fortisra, Fortinet Fortiswitchmanager.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22258?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22258 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-22258 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22258 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
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Also known as GHSA-5hxp-wcvm-357w.