CVE-2025-68686: Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2026-07-27. EPSS: 29.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions 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.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiOS: from 6.4.0, before 7.4.7 (fixed in 7.4.7); from 7.6.0, before 7.6.2 (fixed in 7.6.2)

Published 2026-02-10. Last modified 2026-07-28.