THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2025-53609
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2025-53609

Fortiweb vulnerability

CVSS
4.9
EPSS
8.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
A Relative Path Traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0.2 through 7.0.11 may allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file read on the underlying system via crafted requests.
Affected vendor
Fortinet
Affected product
Fortiweb
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2025-09-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 8.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2025-53609

  • Confirm whether Fortinet Fortiweb is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2025-53609.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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