CVE-2025-53744

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Aug 12, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Jul 9, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.8 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:C	fortinet

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Escalation of privilege

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FortiOSFortinet	7.6.0 through 7.6.2Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.7Affected 7.2.0 through 7.2.11Affected 7.0.0 through 7.0.17Affected 6.4.0 through 6.4.16Affected

References

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