Status: KEV | Advisory ID: CVE-2025-68686
| CVE | CVE-2025-68686 |
| Affected products | Fortinet FortiOS |
| Exploitation status | Listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating confirmed active exploitation. |
| Classified as | CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) |
| KEV listing | Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 2026-07-27. |
| Exploitation prediction (EPSS) | 30% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98% percentile) -- FIRST.org's EPSS model. |
| Federal remediation deadline | 2026-08-10 (CISA KEV, Binding Operational Directive). |
Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability. This may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the patch developed for the symbolic link persistency mechanism observed in some post-exploit cases, via crafted HTTP requests. An attacker would need first to have compromised the product via another vulnerability, at filesystem level.
| Source | Reference |
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| NVD | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686 |