---
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: 0.98109
kev: true
kevDateAdded: '2026-07-27'
kevDueDate: '2026-08-10'
kevRansomware: false
exploited: true
ingestedAt: '2026-07-27T18:22:57.634Z'
---

## Overview

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 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.

## Affected

- `fortios >= 6.4.0, < 7.4.7`
- `fortios >= 7.6.0, < 7.6.2`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `fortios 7.6.2`