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CVE-2022-41328 — Fortinet Fortios

CISA KEV

CVSS v3.1 6.7 (MEDIUM) · EPSS 0.1% (higher than 40.0% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2023-03-07

As of 2025-10-24, CVE-2022-41328 is a MEDIUM-severity vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios, CVSS v3.1 6.7, EPSS 0.1% (40.0th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-03-14), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2023-04-04. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2022-41328, most recently “FortiBleed: Mass Credential Compromise Campaign Against Internet-Exposed Fortinet FortiGate Devices (86,644 Devices, 194 Countries)”.

Last updated: 2025-10-24

What is CVE-2022-41328?

A improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability ('path traversal') [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.3, 7.0.0 through 7.0.9 and before 6.4.11 allows a privileged attacker to read and write files on the underlying Linux system via crafted CLI commands.

The record classifies CVE-2022-41328 under weakness class CWE-22. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs high-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1285 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 6.7 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.0% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed since 2023-03-14, federal remediation deadline 2023-04-04
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2023-03-07, last modified 2025-10-24

Is CVE-2022-41328 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2022-41328 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-03-14, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2023-04-04 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 25 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

Fortinet: Fortios

How to fix CVE-2022-41328

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2022-41328. Vendor advisory: https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-369. Because CVE-2022-41328 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2023-04-04. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2022-41328

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2022-41328, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

FortiBleed: Mass Credential Compromise Campaign Against Internet-Exposed Fortinet FortiGate Devices (86,644 Devices, 194 Countries) — CRITICAL · 2026-07-11
UNC3886 Zero-Day Rootkit Campaign Targeting Singaporean Telecommunications — ORB Network C2, Fortinet/VMware Exploitation, Covert Infrastructure Persistence — CRITICAL · 2026-03-13

Sources

Seeded from NVD and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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