Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48885

Path Traversal in Fortinet Fortirecorder 7.0.0 – 7.0.5

Path Traversal
Published
16 January 2025
Modified
08 July 2026
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0079 53th percentile
Risk Priority 43 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48885 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortirecorder. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 47% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-48885 is an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability, classified under CWE-22 as a path traversal issue. It affects multiple Fortinet products, including FortiRecorder versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.1 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.4; FortiVoice versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.4, 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, and 6.0 all versions; and FortiWeb versions 7.6.0, 7.4.0 through 7.4.4, 7.2 all versions, 7.0 all versions, and 6.4 all versions. The flaw enables privilege escalation through specially crafted packets and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Exploitation requires an attacker to have low privileges (PR:L) and involves a network-based attack (AV:N) with high complexity (AC:H) and no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation allows the attacker to escalate privileges, resulting in a high impact on availability (A:H) with no impact on confidentiality or integrity.

Mitigation details are available in the Fortinet PSIRT advisory at https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-259.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') vulnerability in Fortinet FortiRecorder 7.2.0 through 7.2.1, FortiRecorder 7.0.0 through 7.0.4, FortiVoice 7.0.0 through 7.0.4, FortiVoice 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, FortiVoice 6.0 all versions, FortiWeb 7.6.0, FortiWeb 7.4.0 through…

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7.4.4, FortiWeb 7.2 all versions, FortiWeb 7.0 all versions, FortiWeb 6.4 all versions allows attacker to escalate privilege via specially crafted packets.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2024-48884Same product: Fortinet Fortirecorder
CVE-2023-37932Same product: Fortinet Fortivoice
CVE-2025-60024Same product: Fortinet Fortivoice
CVE-2025-58693Same product: Fortinet Fortivoice
CVE-2024-55597Same product: Fortinet Fortiweb
CVE-2024-47566Same product: Fortinet Fortirecorder
CVE-2025-25254Same product: Fortinet Fortiweb
CVE-2024-21753Same vendor: Fortinet
CVE-2025-54659Same vendor: Fortinet
CVE-2024-36508Same vendor: Fortinet

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortirecorder
7.0.0 — 7.0.5 · 7.2.0 — 7.2.2
fortinet
fortivoice
6.0.0 — 6.4.10 · 7.0.0 — 7.0.5
fortinet
fortiweb
7.6.0 · 6.4.0 — 7.4.5

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V5.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

Enforces the intended directory access authorizations that path traversal would otherwise bypass.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

Input validation directly neutralizes special path elements before pathname construction occurs.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

Least privilege reduces the impact of any unauthorized file access obtained via traversal.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.

PR.AA-05 none match
prevents

PR.AA-05 defines and reviews access policies but does not address code-level pathname neutralization, so neither direction prevents CWE-22.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing in development catches path traversal via static/dynamic analysis.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path sanitization that directly prevent path traversal.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements include rules for safe file handling and canonicalization.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles require least-privilege file access and directory isolation.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe path construction and mandate safe APIs.

A.8.3 Information access restriction partial match
mitigates

Information access restriction limits which files an application may read or write.

References