🛡️ CVE-2025-53744 — fortios

🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-266 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
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Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability [CWE-266] in FortiOS Security Fabric version 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, 7.2 all versions, 7.0 all versions, 6.4 all versions, may allow a remote authenticated attacker with high privileges to escalate their privileges to super-admin via registering the device to a malicious FortiManager.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, 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-2025-53744 is classified as CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53744 is recorded against 1 package.

  • fortios (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 August 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

fortiguard.fortinet.com
cert-portal.siemens.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-266
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fortios 7.6.0 7.6.3

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