Privilege escalation via csfd path traversal
Published Jan 16, 2025 · Updated Jul 8, 2026
Path traversal in Fortinet FortiWeb, FortiVoice, and FortiRecorder allows remote attackers to escalate privileges with crafted packets. The csfd daemon fails to confine attacker-controlled paths to an intended directory while processing Security Fabric traffic. Network access to the Security Fabric interface and port is required, and successful exploitation can alter appliance filesystem state.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in Fortinet FortiWeb, FortiVoice, and FortiRecorder allows remote attackers to escalate privileges with crafted packets. The csfd daemon fails to confine attacker-controlled paths to an intended directory while processing Security Fabric traffic. Network access to the Security Fabric interface and port is required, and successful exploitation can alter appliance filesystem state.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-48885
- Published
- Jan 16, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2026
- Vendor
- Fortinet
- Product
- FortiWeb
- Classifications
- CWE-22, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=6.4.0 <=6.4.3
- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <=7.0.12
- Affected versionversion=7.2.0 <=7.2.12
- Affected versionversion=7.4.0 <=7.4.4
- Affected versionversion=7.6.0
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