Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-40714

Critical

Published: 02 April 2025

Published
02 April 2025
Modified
15 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0053 67.7th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-40714 is a critical-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortisiem. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 32.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)
CWE-23

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortisiem
7.0.0 · 6.4.0 — 6.5.1 · 6.6.0 — 6.6.3 · 6.7.0 — 6.7.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References