Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-25252

Fortinet Fortios 6.4.0 – 7.0.17

Published
14 October 2025
Modified
15 October 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 4.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0028 20th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25252 is a medium-severity Insufficient Session Expiration (CWE-613) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 20th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-12 (Session Termination) and SC-23 (Session Authenticity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability [CWE-613] in FortiOS SSL VPN 7.6.0 through 7.6.2, 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, 6.4 all versions may allow a remote attacker (e.g. a former admin whose account was removed and whose…

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session was terminated) in possession of the SAML record of a user session to access or re-open that session via re-use of SAML record.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2023-46714Same product: Fortinet Fortios
CVE-2016-1909Same product: Fortinet Fortios
CVE-2025-58325Same product: Fortinet Fortios
CVE-2024-26007Same product: Fortinet Fortios
CVE-2024-32122Same product: Fortinet Fortios
CVE-2025-53844Same product: Fortinet Fortios

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortios
6.4.0 — 7.0.17 · 7.2.0 — 7.2.11 · 7.4.0 — 7.4.7

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-12 Session Termination
  • SC-23 Session Authenticity
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires cryptographic/session expiration mechanisms that would invalidate terminated SAML sessions and block their reuse.

prevent

Mandates protection of session identifiers and tokens against replay or unauthorized reuse after account or session termination.

prevent

Enforces access decisions on every request, which must reject sessions whose SAML record no longer corresponds to a valid, active account.

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.AA-01 mostly match
prevents

Credential lifecycle management directly includes enforcing session expiration to prevent reuse.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
prevents

Authorization policy enforcement and review covers terminating stale sessions to limit access scope.

PR.AA-03 partial match
prevents

Authentication mechanisms can incorporate session timeout checks but do not inherently address expiration policy.

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.

none

Automatic termination of inactive sessions and limits on connection duration shrink the window during which a hijacked or unattended authenticated session can be exploited.

References