Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-53609

Medium

Published: 09 September 2025

Published
09 September 2025
Modified
10 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.4th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-53609 is a medium-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A Relative Path Traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiWeb 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0.2 through 7.0.11 may allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file read on the underlying system via crafted requests.

CWE(s)
CWE-23

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
fortiweb
7.0.2 — 7.2.12 · 7.4.0 — 7.4.9 · 7.6.0 — 7.6.5

Mitigating Controls

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

References