CVE-2025-53609 Path traversal in FortiWeb

What is CVE-2025-53609?

CVE-2025-53609 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb, published on 9 Sep 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Relative Path Traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0.2 through 7.0.11 may allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file read on the underlying system via crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53609?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-53609?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53609 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-2025-53609 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53609 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
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Also known as GHSA-9rc9-f47x-pvpx.