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CVE-2023-40714: fortinet fortisiem Relative Path Traversal

CVSS: 9.7v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
Published 02-04-2025Last modified 02-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-40714 is a critical (CVSS 9.7) Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in fortinet fortisiem. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.7/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.74%
0%100%
Low · +0.14 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A relative path traversal in Fortinet FortiSIEM versions 7.0.0, 6.7.0 through 6.7.2, 6.6.0 through 6.6.3, 6.5.1, 6.5.0 allows attacker to escalate privilege via uploading certain GUI elements

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

54%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.14 pp

From 0.61% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.74%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Fortinet1 product
  • fortisiem≥ 6.7.0, ≤ 6.7.2 | ≥ 6.5.0, ≤ 6.5.1 | ≥ 6.4.0, ≤ 6.5.1 | ≥ 6.6.0, ≤ 6.6.3 | ≥ 6.7.0, ≤ 6.7.3 | 7.0.0

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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