CVE-2023-25608An incomplete filtering of one or more instances of special elements vulnerability [CWE-792] in the command line interpreter of FortiAP-W2…
- 5.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.60%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 51% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An incomplete filtering of one or more instances of special elements vulnerability [CWE-792] in the command line interpreter of FortiAP-W2 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0.3 through 7.0.5, 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, 6.4 all versions, 6.2 all versions, 6.0 all versions; FortiAP-C 5.4.0 through 5.4.4, 5.2 all versions; FortiAP 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, 7.0.0 through 7.0.5, 6.4 all versions, 6.0 all versions; FortiAP-U 7.0.0, 6.2.0 through 6.2.5, 6.0 all versions, 5.4 all versions may allow an authenticated attacker to read arbitrary files via specially crafted command arguments.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fortinet
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| fortinetCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:U/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Affected products
- affected 7.2.0 – ≤ 7.2.1
- affected 7.0.3 – ≤ 7.0.5
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.1
- affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.9
- affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.6
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.6
- affected 5.4.0 – ≤ 5.4.4
- affected 5.2.0 – ≤ 5.2.1
- affected 7.2.0 – ≤ 7.2.1
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.5
- affected 6.4.3 – ≤ 6.4.9
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.6
- affected 7.0.0
- affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.5
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.4
- affected 5.4.3 – ≤ 5.4.6
- affected 5.4.0
- affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.9
- affected 6.2.0 – ≤ 6.2.6
- affected 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.6
What to do
Solution: Please upgrade to FortiAP-W2 version 7.2.2 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP-W2 version 7.0.6 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP-C version 5.4.5 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP version 7.2.2 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP version 7.0.6 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP-U version 7.0.1 or above Please upgrade to FortiAP-U version 6.2.6 or above
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-29549 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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