Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2022-41328

Fortinet FortiOS Path Traversal Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Fortinet
Product FortiOS
Weakness CWE-22

The vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS contains a path traversal vulnerability that may allow a local privileged attacker to read and write files via crafted CLI commands.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 4 April 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 00:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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