CVE-2025-52970 Privilege escalation in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2025-52970?

CVE-2025-52970 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 12 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A improper handling of parameters in Fortinet FortiWeb versions 7.6.3 and below, versions 7.4.7 and below, versions 7.2.10 and below, and 7.0.10 and below may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker with non-public information pertaining to the device and targeted user to gain admin privileges on the device via a specially crafted request.

Weakness: CWE-233

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52970?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-52970?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52970 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-52970 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-52970 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template and 3 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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-jc24-hjq6-4g6f.