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Fortinet Fortigate Privilege escalation in automation-stitch (FG-IR-24-385)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 238113

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Synopsis

Fortinet Firewall is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of Fortigate installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FG-IR-24-385 advisory.

 - AnAuthentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] in FortiOS and FortiProxymay allow an authenticated attacker to elevate their privileges via triggering a malicious Webhook action in the Automation Stitch component. (CVE-2025-22862)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

For 7.0.x / 7.2.x, see vendor advisory. For 7.4.x, upgrade to Fortigate version 7.4.8 or later.

See Also

https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-385

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 238113

File Name: fortigate_FG-IR-24-385.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Firewalls

Published: 6/10/2025

Updated: 6/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fortinet:fortios

Required KB Items: Host/Fortigate/model, Host/Fortigate/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22862