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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2026-39813

A path traversal: '../filedir' vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSandbox 5.0.0 through 5.0.5, FortiSandbox 4.4.0 through 4.4.8 may allow attacker to escalation of privilege via specially crafted HTTP requests.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 22.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 22.2%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

A path traversal: '../filedir' vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSandbox 5.0.0 through 5.0.5, FortiSandbox 4.4.0 through 4.4.8 may allow attacker to escalation of privilege via specially crafted HTTP requests.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
22.22% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-24
Affected
fortinet/fortisandbox
Source
psirt@fortinet.com
EPSS trend
0%13%25%24 September 2026: 0.72%25 October 2026: 22.22%30 October 2026: 22.22%24 September 202630 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.7% on 24 September 2026 to 22.2% on 30 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.