# CVE-2025-64446: FortiWeb - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-64446 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-64446

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Fortinet FortiWeb
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-23 (Relative Path Traversal)
- **Tags:** enterprise_software

## Description

A relative path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb may allow an attacker to execute administrative commands on the system via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-64446](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-64446) is a vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb that allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to compromise the system via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. Exploiting this flaw could grant unauthorized access to sensitive or critical data managed by FortiWeb, posing a significant confidentiality risk.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 14th of November 2025.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2025-64446 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-64446 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-64446 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the `/api/v2.0/cmdb/system/admin/` endpoint containing path traversal sequences.

## Timeline

- 2025-11-14: CVE Published. CVE-2025-64446 is published to NVD.
- 2025-11-14: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-64446 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-11-14: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-64446 for the first time.
- 2025-11-14: CISA KEV. CVE-2025-64446 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2025-11-21: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).

## References

- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-64446/
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/when-the-impersonation-function-gets-used-to-impersonate-users-fortinet-fortiweb-auth-bypass/

## Live exploitation data

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