Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS

Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability. This 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. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-07-27 (federal deadline 2026-08-10).

First seen: 27 Jul 2026
Last update: 27 Jul 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2025-68686
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: VPN & firewalls

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## Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Fortinet FortiOS
Ids: CVE-2025-68686

Fortinet FortiOS contains an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability. This 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. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-07-27 (federal deadline 2026-08-10).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (vpn-edge). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2025-68686") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686
https://pwned.coffee/i/fortinet-fortios-exposure-of-sensitive-information-to-an-cve-2025-68686

Sources

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