CVE-2023-25608: Fortinet Fortiap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An incomplete filtering of one or more instances of special elements vulnerability [CWE-792] in the command line interpreter of FortiAP-W2 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0.3 through 7.0.5, 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, 6.4 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.0 all versions; FortiAP-C 5.4.0 through 5.4.4, 5.2 all versions; FortiAP 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0.0 through 7.0.5, 6.4 all versions, 6.0 all versions; FortiAP-U 7.0.0, 6.2.0 through 6.2.5, 6.0 all versions, 5.4 all versions may allow an authenticated attacker to read arbitrary files via specially crafted command arguments.

Affected products

• Fortinet Fortiap: from 6.0.0, before 7.0.6 (fixed in 7.0.6); from 7.2.0, before 7.2.2 (fixed in 7.2.2)
• Fortinet Fortiap-C: from 5.2.0, before 5.4.5 (fixed in 5.4.5)
• Fortinet Fortiap-U: from 5.4.0, before 6.2.6 (fixed in 6.2.6); version 7.0.0 only
• Fortinet Fortiap-w2: from 6.0.0, up to and including 7.0.1; from 7.0.3, before 7.0.6 (fixed in 7.0.6); from 7.2.0, before 7.2.2 (fixed in 7.2.2)

Published 2023-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.