Exploitation Summary
CVE-2025-68686 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added July 27, 2026.
Description
An Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability [CWE-200] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.1, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the patch developed for the symbolic link persistency mechanism observed in some post-exploit cases, via crafted HTTP requests. An attacker would need first to have compromised the product via another vulnerability, at filesystem level.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-68686
Vendor Advisory
https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934
Scores
CVSS v3
5.9
EPSS
0.0126
EPSS Percentile
67.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CISA KEV
2026-07-27
VulnCheck KEV
2026-07-27
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2025-207440
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (6)
Fortinet/FortiOS
6.4.0 - 6.4.16
fortinet/fortios
6.4.0 - 7.4.7
Fortinet/FortiOS
7.0.0 - 7.0.19
Fortinet/FortiOS
7.2.0 - 7.2.13
Fortinet/FortiOS
7.4.0 - 7.4.6
Fortinet/FortiOS
7.6.0 - 7.6.1
Published
Feb 10, 2026
KEV Added
Jul 27, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026