CVE-2025-22254

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.85 % · percentile 58 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-06-10
Updated: 2026-02-26
Assigner: fortinet
NVD status: Modified

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, FortiOS 6.4.0 through 6.4.15, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.7, FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiWeb 7.4.0 through 7.4.6 allows an authenticated attacker with at least read-only admin permissions to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:W/RC:C	fortinet
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@fortinet.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-17796
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-22254

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0496 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Fortinet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.4.0 < 6.4.16
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 < 7.0.17
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 < 7.2.11
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.4.0 < 7.4.7
cpe:2.3:o:fortinet:fortios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.6.0 < 7.6.2
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.4.0 < 7.4.8
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.6.0 < 7.6.2
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiweb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.4.0 < 7.4.7
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiweb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.6.0 < 7.6.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
Fortinet · FortiOS	affected 7.6.0 ≤ 7.6.1 ; affected 7.4.0 ≤ 7.4.6 ; affected 7.2.0 ≤ 7.2.10 ; affected 7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.16 ; affected 6.4.0 ≤ 6.4.15
Fortinet · FortiProxy	affected 7.6.0 ≤ 7.6.1 ; affected 7.4.0 ≤ 7.4.7
Fortinet · FortiWeb	affected 7.6.0 ≤ 7.6.1 ; affected 7.4.0 ≤ 7.4.6

References

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-006

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD