CVE-2025-61624 Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal

What is CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, published on 14 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') [CWE-22] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.7.0, FortiPAM 1.6 all versions, 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 7.6.4, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiProxy 7.2 all versions, FortiProxy 7.0 all versions, FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0 through 7.2.7, FortiSwitchManager 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 may allow an authenticated attacker with admin profile and at least read-write permissions to write or delete arbitrary files via specific CLI commands.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61624?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fortinet Fortios, Fortinet Fortipam, Fortinet Fortiproxy, Fortinet Fortiswitchmanager, Siemens Ruggedcom Ape1808 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2025-61624?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61624 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 19 Oct 2026.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-61624 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2025-61624 in the wild since at least 16 Oct 2026.

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
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Also known as GHSA-f3vf-64gv-cxr8.