CVE-2025-24472

HIGH

8.1

CVSS Score

Published: February 11, 2025 at 04:50 PM UTC

Updated: August 5, 2026 at 05:16 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorFortiOSFortiProxy

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Severity

HIGH8.1

Exploitation

CISA KEV

Exploit prediction

EPSS 7%

SSVC

Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score7.2%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 7.2% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 94% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges via crafted CSF proxy requests.

Required Action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Ransomware Use

Known

Added to KEV

Mar 18, 2025

Remediation Due

Apr 8, 2025

572 days overdue

Notes

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-535

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24472

Description

An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.12, 7.0.0 through 7.0.19 may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker with prior knowledge of upstream and downstream devices serial numbers to gain super-admin privileges on the downstream device, if the Security Fabric is enabled, via crafted CSF proxy requests.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

FortiOS · Fortinet

95%

7.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0.167.0.0 ≤ v < 7.0.177.0.0 7.0.1 7.0.10 7.0.11 7.0.12 7.0.13 7.0.14 7.0.15 7.0.16 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9

Affected range stops below 7.0.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

FortiProxy · Fortinet

95%

7.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0.197.0.0 ≤ v < 7.0.207.2.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.2.127.2.0 ≤ v < 7.2.137.0.0 7.0.1 7.0.10 7.0.11 7.0.12 7.0.13 7.0.14 7.0.15 7.0.16 7.0.17 7.0.18 7.0.19 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9 7.2.0 7.2.1 7.2.10 7.2.11 7.2.12 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.5 7.2.6 7.2.7 7.2.8 7.2.9

Affected range stops below 7.0.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 7.2.13, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-535

References (2)

Vendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-535

US Government Resource

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24472

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.1HIGHfortinet

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Complexity: HIGH
Privileges: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: HIGH
Integrity: HIGH
Availability: HIGH

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED

CWE

CWE-288

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