CVE-2025-54821 Privilege escalation in FortiOS

What is CVE-2025-54821?

CVE-2025-54821 is a low-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 18 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.6.0, FortiPAM 1.5 all versions, FortiPAM 1.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.3 all versions, FortiPAM 1.2 all versions, FortiPAM 1.1 all versions, FortiPAM 1.0 all versions, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.13, FortiProxy 7.2 all versions, FortiProxy 7.0 all versions may allow an authenticated administrator to bypass the trusted host policy via crafted CLI command.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54821?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortipam, Fortinet Fortiproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2025-54821?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54821 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-54821 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54821 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

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