Low1.8Fortinet

Low [CVE-2025-54821] Trusted hosts bypass via SSH

This low-severity Fortinet advisory covers CVE-2025-54821 affecting FortiSASE, FortiOS.

FG-IR-25-545 Published Nov 18, 2025Updated by vendor May 27, 2026

CVE-2025-54821

Affected products & platforms

FortinetFortiGateFirewallFortiOS

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Summary

CVSSv3 Score:

1.8

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability [CWE-269] in FortiOS, FortiProxy and FortiPAM may allow an authenticated administrator to bypass the trusted host policy via crafted CLI command.

Revised on 2026-05-27 00:00:00

Affected products named by the advisory: FortiSASE.

Affected versions

FortiOS 7.6: 7.6.0 through 7.6.3
FortiOS 7.4: 7.4.0 through 7.4.11
FortiOS 7.2: 7.2 all versions
FortiOS 7.0: 7.0 all versions
FortiOS 6.4: 6.4 all versions
FortiPAM 1.6: 1.6.0
FortiPAM 1.5: 1.5 all versions
FortiPAM 1.4: 1.4 all versions
FortiPAM 1.3: 1.3 all versions
FortiPAM 1.2: 1.2 all versions
FortiPAM 1.1: 1.1 all versions
FortiPAM 1.0: 1.0 all versions
FortiSASE 25.2: 25.2.91

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Fixed versions

FortiOS 7.6: 7.6.4
FortiOS 7.4: 7.4.12
FortiOS 7.2: migrate to a fixed release
FortiOS 7.0: migrate to a fixed release
FortiOS 6.4: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.6: 1.6.1
FortiPAM 1.5: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.4: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.3: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.2: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.1: migrate to a fixed release
FortiPAM 1.0: migrate to a fixed release
FortiSASE 25.2: migrate to a fixed release

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Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Upgrade per the Affected/Solution table: FortiOS 7.6: 7.6.4; FortiOS 7.4: 7.4.12; FortiOS 7.2: migrate to a fixed release; FortiOS 7.0: migrate to a fixed release; FortiOS 6.4: migrate to a fixed release; ….

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Sources

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FortiGuard PSIRT Advisoriesofficial
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Official resources

FortiGate / FortiOS documentation & release notes (target: 7.6 / 7.4 / 7.2)
Release notes
This advisory names 7.6 / 7.4 / 7.2 as the first fixed releases — official upgrade documentation for FortiGate / FortiOS firewalls.
Fortinet Upgrade Path Tool
Official documentation
Official tool to plan a supported FortiOS upgrade path from your current build to the fixed release.
FortiProxy documentation & upgrade guides
Official documentation
This advisory names 7.6 / 7.4 / 7.2 as the first fixed releases — official upgrade documentation for FortiProxy.

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