Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-52964

Medium

Published: 12 August 2025

Published
12 August 2025
Modified
14 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0116 79.0th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-52964 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimanager. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiManager version 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.5, 7.2.0 through 7.2.9 and below 7.0.13 & FortiManager Cloud version 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, 7.4.0 through 7.4.5…

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and before 7.2.9 allows an authenticated remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via FGFM crafted requests.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortimanager
6.2.0 — 7.0.14 · 7.2.0 — 7.2.10 · 7.4.0 — 7.4.6
fortinet
fortimanager cloud
6.4.1 — 7.0.13 · 7.2.1 — 7.2.10 · 7.4.1 — 7.4.6

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References