CVE-2025-54821An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through…
- 1.7LowCVSS base score
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.6.0, FortiPAM 1.5 all versions, FortiPAM 1.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.3 all versions, FortiPAM 1.2 all versions, FortiPAM 1.1 all versions, FortiPAM 1.0 all versions, FortiProxy 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.13, FortiProxy 7.2 all versions, FortiProxy 7.0 all versions may allow an authenticated administrator to bypass the trusted host policy via crafted CLI command.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fortinet
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 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 | Low1.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:R |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (12 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: Low 1.7.
Affected products
- affected 7.6.0 – ≤ 7.6.3
- affected 7.4.0 – ≤ 7.4.11
- affected 7.2.0 – ≤ 7.2.13
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.19
- affected 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.16
- affected 7.6.0 – ≤ 7.6.3
- affected 7.4.0 – ≤ 7.4.13
- affected 7.2.0 – ≤ 7.2.16
- affected 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.23
- affected 1.6.0
- affected 1.5.0 – ≤ 1.5.1
- affected 1.4.0 – ≤ 1.4.3
- affected 1.3.0 – ≤ 1.3.1
- affected 1.2.0
- affected 1.1.0 – ≤ 1.1.2
- affected 1.0.0 – ≤ 1.0.3
What to do
Solution: Fortinet remediated this issue in FortiSASE version 25.3.b and hence customers do not need to perform any action. Upgrade to FortiOS version 8.0.0 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.6.4 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.4.12 or above Upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.6.4 or above Upgrade to upcoming FortiProxy version 7.4.14 or above Upgrade to FortiPAM version 1.7.0 or above Upgrade to FortiPAM version 1.6.1 or above
References
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-2025-198008 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-54821)Record last updated .