CVE-2025-25254 Path traversal in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2025-25254?

CVE-2025-25254 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 8 Apr 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 FortiWeb version 7.6.2 and below, version 7.4.6 and below, 7.2 all versions, 7.0 all versions endpoint may allow an authenticated admin to access and modify the filesystem via crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25254?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-25254?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-25254 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-2025-25254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25254 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-q7jr-v677-ww76.