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CISA Warns of Fortinet Heap-based Buffer Overflow Flaw Exploited in Attacks

CISA added actively exploited Fortinet CVE-2025-25249, a critical heap-based buffer overflow in FortiOS, FortiSwitchManager, and FortiSASE, to its KEV catalog.

CVE-2025-25249 is a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122/CWE-787) allowing unauthorized code execution by sending specially crafted packets. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 9, 2026, with a September 12 remediation deadline for federal agencies under BOD 26-04 and mandatory forensic triage of affected environments. Internet-facing Fortinet firewalls and SASE platforms are a likely foothold for credential theft, persistence, and lateral movement; ransomware use is currently listed as unknown.

Cyber Security News · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2025-252492

Fortinet security advisory (AV26-023) - Update 1

CISA added Fortinet CVE-2025-25249, a heap-based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon, to its KEV catalog; Canadian Cyber Centre urges patching.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security updated advisory AV26-023, which relays January 2026 Fortinet advisories covering FortiFone, FortiOS, FortiSASE, FortiSIEM, and FortiSwitchManager. On September 9, 2026, CISA added CVE-2025-25249, a heap-based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Related Fortinet flaws include unauthenticated local configuration access (CVE-2025-47855) and unauthenticated remote command injection (CVE-2025-64155). Administrators should review the advisories and apply available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Securityupdated · 6d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2025-25249CVE-2025-47855CVE-2025-64155

CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline

CISA adds actively exploited Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet edge-device flaws to KEV catalog, ordering federal agencies to patch by September 12, 2026.

CISA added CVE-2026-20079 (Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center authentication bypass, CVSS 10.0), CVE-2026-19490 (Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway authentication bypass, CVSS 9.3), and CVE-2025-25249 (FortiOS heap buffer overflow, CVSS 7.3) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a September 12, 2026 deadline for FCEB agencies. Cisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20079 in August 2026, while Previdian honeypots logged 56 NetScaler exploitation attempts since September 3. SOCRadar attributes Fortinet exploitation to a financially motivated Russian-speaking actor deploying the PivotC2 Node.js RAT, infecting 178 of over 3,000 targeted IP addresses, mostly in the US.

The Hacker Newsupdated · 5d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 5 sourcesCVE-2026-20079CVE-2026-19490CVE-2025-252491