{"id":"CVE-2025-68686","title":"An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all…","summary":"An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all…","severity":"medium","cvss":5.9,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","cwe":["CWE-200"],"vendor":"fortinet","product":"fortios","affected":["fortios >= 6.4.0, < 7.4.7","fortios >= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2"],"patched":["fortios 7.6.2"],"published":"2026-02-10","updated":"2026-07-27","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686","references":[{"url":"https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934","label":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-68686","label":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"tags":["nvd","kev","in-the-wild"],"epss":0.29601,"epssPercentile":0.98151,"kev":true,"kevDateAdded":"2026-07-27","kevDueDate":"2026-08-10","kevRansomware":false,"exploited":true,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-27T18:22:57.634Z","slug":"CVE-2025-68686","body":"## Overview\n\nAn Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `fortios >= 6.4.0, < 7.4.7`\n- `fortios >= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `fortios 7.6.2`","depth":"midnight","depthScore":63,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":32.5,"likelihood":5.9,"exploitation":25,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":165,"id":"CVE-2025-68686","ts":1787603589000,"field":"epss","old":"0.01264","new":"0.2915"}]}