Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-40588

Medium

Published: 12 August 2025

Published
12 August 2025
Modified
14 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 33.0th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-40588 is a medium-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimail. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Multiple relative path traversal vulnerabilities [CWE-23] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiCamera 2.1 all versions, FortiCamera 2.0.0, FortiCamera 1.1 all versions, FortiCamera 1.0 all versions, FortiMail 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiMail 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, FortiMail 7.2 all versions, FortiMail 7.0 all versions, FortiMail…

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6.4 all versions, FortiNDR 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiNDR 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiNDR 7.2 all versions, FortiNDR 7.1 all versions, FortiNDR 7.0 all versions, FortiRecorder 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, FortiRecorder 7.0.0 through 7.0.4, FortiRecorder 6.4 all versions, FortiVoice 7.0.0 through 7.0.3, FortiVoice 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, FortiVoice 6.0 all versions may allow a privileged attacker to read files from the underlying filesystem via crafted CLI requests.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
forticamera firmware
2.0.0 — 2.1.4
fortinet
fortimail
6.4.0 — 7.4.4 · 7.6.0 — 7.6.2
fortinet
fortindr
7.0.0 — 7.4.7 · 7.6.0 — 7.6.2
fortinet
fortirecorder
6.4.0 — 7.0.5 · 7.2.0 — 7.2.2
fortinet
fortivoice
6.0.0 — 6.4.10 · 7.0.0 — 7.0.5

Mitigating Controls

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

References