CVE-2025-54821

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiO

Severity
Low 1.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.001
4.6th percentile
Discovered by
Not disclosed
Published
Nov 18, 2025
Assigned by fortinet

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.11, FortiOS 7.2 all versions, FortiOS 7.0 all versions, FortiOS 6.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.6.0, FortiPAM 1.5 all versions, FortiPAM 1.4 all versions, FortiPAM 1.3 all versions, FortiPAM 1.2 all versions, FortiPAM 1.1 all versions, FortiPAM 1.0 all versions, FortiSASE 25.2.91 may allow an authenticated administrator to bypass the trusted host policy via crafted CLI command.

Weakness: CWE-269

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Fortinet FortiOS Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Fortinet FortiPAM Identity / IAM / MFA cna-assigner
Fortinet FortiSASE SASE / SSE / Secure Web cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (4)
  • Fortinet · FortiPAM
  • Fortinet · FortiSASE
  • Fortinet · FortiOS
  • Siemens · RUGGEDCOM APE1808

Vendor remediation

Fortinet remediated this issue in FortiSASE version 25.3.b and hence customers do not need to perform any action. Upgrade to FortiOS version 8.0.0 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.6.4 or above Upgrade to FortiOS version 7.4.12 or above Upgrade to FortiProxy version 7.6.4 or above Upgrade to upcoming FortiProxy version 7.4.14 or above Upgrade to FortiPAM version 1.7.0 or above Upgrade to FortiPAM version 1.6.1 or above