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CVE-2025-54821: fortinet fortios Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 6.0v3.1MediumModified
Published 18-11-2025Last modified 19-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-54821 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in fortinet fortios. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
24/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.0/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 18-11-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.6.0, 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 may allow an authenticated administrator to bypass the trusted host policy via crafted CLI command.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.15% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

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

Fortinet3 products
  • fortios≥ 7.6.0, ≤ 7.6.3 | ≥ 7.4.0, ≤ 7.4.11 | ≥ 7.2.0, ≤ 7.2.13 | ≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.0.19 | ≥ 6.4.0, ≤ 6.4.16 | ≥ 6.4.0, < 7.6.4
  • fortipam1.6.0 | ≥ 1.5.0, ≤ 1.5.1 | ≥ 1.4.0, ≤ 1.4.3 | ≥ 1.3.0, ≤ 1.3.1 | 1.2.0 | ≥ 1.1.0, ≤ 1.1.2 | ≥ 1.0.0, ≤ 1.0.3 | ≥ 1.0.0, < 1.6.1
  • fortiproxy≥ 7.0.0, < 7.6.4

1 vendor · 3 products

References

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