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CVE-2023-25608

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-25608 is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) affecting various FortiAP, FortiAP-C, FortiAP-U, and FortiAP-W2 products across multiple firmware versions. This flaw, categorized as an incomplete filtering of special elements (CWE-792), allows an authenticated attacker to read arbitrary files by crafting specific command arguments within the command-line interface. While the attack complexity is low and requires authentication, the potential impact is high confidentiality compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.0.0, < 7.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.2.0, < 5.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap-c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4.0, < 6.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap-u:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:fortiap-u:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

fortinetvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

fortiguard.com / psirt/FG-IR-22-120
Vendor Advisory