🛡️ CVE-2025-68649 — fortianalyzer

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 none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68649 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68649 is recorded against 4 packages.

• fortianalyzer (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.5)
• fortianalyzer-cloud (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.5)
• fortimanager (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.5)
• fortimanager-cloud (from 7.6.0 up to 7.6.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 April 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

fortiguard.fortinet.com

Other advisories for this package

fortianalyzer has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-67604 (5.3 Medium, published 12 May 2026)
• CVE-2025-61848 (7.2 High, published 14 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-22629 (3.7 Low, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2026-22572 (7.2 High, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-49784 (6.0 Medium, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-68648 (7.2 High, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-48418 (6.7 Medium, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-68482 (6.9 Medium, published 10 Mar 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

• CVE-2016-1000305 (published 31 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-47951 (5.7 Medium, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-39210 (5.0 Medium, published 12 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-41057 (2.0 Low, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-0241 (6.5 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-51232 (7.5 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-47890 (8.8 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4510 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)

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