CVE-2025-53744 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2025-53744?

CVE-2025-53744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 12 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability [CWE-266] in FortiOS Security Fabric version 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, 7.2 all versions, 7.0 all versions, 6.4 all versions, may allow a remote authenticated attacker with high privileges to escalate their privileges to super-admin via registering the device to a malicious FortiManager.

Weakness: CWE-266

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53744?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fortinet Fortios.

How do I fix CVE-2025-53744?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53744 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-53744 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53744 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c5vf-25hf-3m74.