CVE-2025-22862 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2025-22862?

CVE-2025-22862 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 2 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] in FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0.6 and above; and FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, 7.2 all versions, 7.0.5 and above may allow an authenticated attacker to elevate their privileges via triggering a malicious Webhook action in the Automation Stitch component.

Weakness: CWE-288

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22862?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22862?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22862 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-22862 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22862 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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