Summary
Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability. This may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the patch developed for the symbolic link persistency mechanism observed in some post-exploit cases, via crafted HTTP requests. An attacker would need first to have compromised the product via another vulnerability, at filesystem level.
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiOS
- Added to KEV
- Jul 27, 2026
- Remediation due
- Aug 10, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- EPSS
- 29.5% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References