CVE-2025-57716: Fortinet FortiClient

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability [CWE-427] in FortiClient Windows 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0 all versions may allow a local low privileged user to perform a DLL hijacking attack via placing a malicious DLL to the FortiClient Online Installer installation folder.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiClient: from 7.0.0, before 7.2.12 (fixed in 7.2.12); from 7.4.0, before 7.4.4 (fixed in 7.4.4)

Published 2025-10-14. Last modified 2026-10-08.