CVE-2025-22254

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jun 10, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 2, 2025

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

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	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

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Escalation of privilege

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiOSFortinet	7.6.0 through 7.6.1Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.6Affected 7.2.0 through 7.2.10Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.16Affected 6.4.0 through 6.4.15Affected
FortiProxyFortinet	7.6.0 through 7.6.1Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.7Affected
FortiWebFortinet	7.6.0 through 7.6.1Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.6Affected

References

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

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