Vulnerability Snapshot
This advisory is rated CRITICAL — exploitation is trivial or already observed in the wild and impact is severe. Patch immediately, not on the next maintenance window.
Affected technology: FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer.
Executive Summary
CVSSv3 Score: 7.2 A Path Traversal vulnerability [CWE-22] in FortiManager, FortiManager Cloud, FortiAnalyzer and FortiAnalyzer Cloud may allow an authenticated administrator to write arbitrary files via a specially crafted archive. Revised on 2026-11-10 00:00:00 ]]>
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