CVE-2025-53609
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…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.6%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 10.65% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-23
- Affected
- fortinet/fortiweb
- Source
- psirt@fortinet.com
EPSS moved from 10.6% on 18 October 2026 to 10.6% on 1 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-512Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.