🛡️ CVE-2025-53680 — fortiap

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command ("OS Command Injection") vulnerability [CWE-78] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiAP 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, FortiAP 7.4.0 through 7.4.5, FortiAP 7.2 all versions, FortiAP 7.0 all versions, FortiAP 6.4 all versions, FortiAP-U 7.0.0 through 7.0.5, FortiAP-U 6.2 all versions, FortiAP-W2 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, FortiAP-W2 7.2 all versions, FortiAP-W2 7.0 all versions allows an authenticated privileged attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via crafted CLI requests.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53680 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53680 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • fortiap (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.3)
  • fortiap-u (from 7.0.0 up to 7.0.6)
  • fortiap-w2 (from 7.2.0 up to 7.4.5)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 12 May 2026 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

fortiguard.fortinet.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fortiap 7.6.0 7.6.3
fortiap-u 7.0.0 7.0.6
fortiap-w2 7.2.0 7.4.5
unknown — —

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