How severe is CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 has a CVSS score of 6/10, rated MEDIUM. Review your exposure and patch according to your risk tolerance.

Which products are affected by CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 affects the following products: fortinet fortios, fortinet fortipam, fortinet fortiproxy, fortinet fortiswitchmanager, siemens ruggedcom ape1808 firmware.

How do I patch CVE-2025-61624?

Apply the fortinet fortios security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-61624 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

How do I detect CVE-2025-61624 across my infrastructure?

Inventory every fortinet fortios deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

How do I mitigate CVE-2025-61624 if there is no patch (or I can't update yet)?

Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Is CVE-2025-61624 actively exploited in the wild?

No public exploit code has been indexed for CVE-2025-61624 yet. This does not mean the vulnerability cannot be exploited — absence of public exploits does not imply safety. Apply the recommended fix and use O3 Security to monitor your exposure.

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 has an EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) score of 0.6%, placing it in the 47th percentile of all CVEs. EPSS is maintained by FIRST.org and estimates the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. This score indicates relatively lower exploitation probability, though the CVSS severity should still guide your patching priority.

Is CVE-2025-61624 in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog?

Yes. CVE-2025-61624 (Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability) was added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 2026-10-16. CISA required all US federal civilian agencies to remediate this vulnerability by 2026-10-19. The required action was: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. Being listed in the KEV catalog is the strongest possible confirmation of active exploitation — treat this as a critical priority.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22). This weakness type describe the underlying flaw category, which helps determine the potential impact and the right class of mitigation. This is a high-impact weakness class that often enables remote code execution or data exposure.

Which products and versions are affected by CVE-2025-61624?

CVE-2025-61624 affects fortinet fortios; fortinet fortipam; fortinet fortiproxy; fortinet fortiswitchmanager, and 1 more product(s). Check the affected-products list on this page against your deployed version to confirm exposure.

When was CVE-2025-61624 published, and has it been updated?

CVE-2025-61624 was published on April 14, 2026 and was last updated on October 16, 2026. Advisory data evolves as severity scores, affected ranges, and exploit intelligence are revised — always check the latest version of the advisory before acting.

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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED

MEDIUM severity

CVE-2025-61624 — Fortios

MEDIUM

CVE-2025-61624 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6) Path Traversal vulnerability in fortinet fortios. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-10-16) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') [CWE-22] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, FortiOS…

Published

Apr 14, 2026

Updated

Oct 16, 2026

Affected

5 products

Patched

See advisory

Exploits

None indexed

Exploitation data as of Oct 16, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-10-16. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-10-19.
A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-61624.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗

0.6%probability of exploitation in next 30 days

Lower Risk+0.08%

Lower risk than most CVEs47th percentile — riskier than 47% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2025-61624 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 390,400 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') [CWE-22] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.7.0, FortiPAM 1.6 all versions, 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 7.6.4, FortiProxy 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiProxy 7.2 all versions, FortiProxy 7.0 all versions, FortiSwitchManager 7.2.0 through 7.2.7, FortiSwitchManager 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 may allow an authenticated attacker with admin profile and at least read-write permissions to write or delete arbitrary files via specific CLI commands.

Affected Products

5 products · 8 configurations

fortiosfortinet

≥ 7.6.0 && < 7.6.5

range

fortipamfortinet

≥ 1.0.0 && < 1.7.1

range

Application

fortiproxyfortinet

≥ 7.6.0 && < 7.6.5

range

Application

fortiswitchmanagerfortinet

≥ 7.2.0 && < 7.2.8

range

ruggedcom ape1808 firmwaresiemens

all

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

Detect
Inventory every fortinet fortios deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the fortinet fortios security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-61624 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

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CVSS Score

6/10CVSS v3 base

Vector breakdown

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Raw vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CWE Classification

CWE-22Path Traversal

Weaponization

No known public exploit tooling found.

Timeline

Disclosed

Apr 14, 2026

KEV added

Oct 16, 2026

Last updated

Oct 16, 2026

Identifiers

CVE-2025-61624

References

Advisoryfortiguard.fortinet.com Advisorycert-portal.siemens.com Advisoryunit42.paloaltonetworks.com Webcisa.gov

Related vulnerabilities

This CVE is medium severity; 7 of 8 other CVEs with CWE-22 are rated as high or higher (top: critical).

CVE-2026-63445CVE-2026-72697CVE-2026-74907CVE-2026-63225CVE-2026-86071CVE-2026-45140CVE-2026-72695CVE-2026-85731Browse all CWE-22

Provenance

Sources

OSV.devNVDCISA KEVFIRST.org (EPSS)

Last verifiedOct 16, 2026

CVE-2025-61624 — Fortios

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

EPSS Exploitation Probability

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Description

Affected Products

Detection & mitigation playbook

Detect

Fix

Workarounds

Frequently Asked Questions

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