CVE-2025-54658: Escalation of privilege in Fortinet FortiDLP
An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiDLP Agent's Outlookproxy plugin for MacOS 11.5.1 and 11.4.2 through 11.4.6 and 11.3.2 through 11.3.4 and 11.2.0 through 11.2.3 and 11.1.1 through 11.1.2 and 11.0.1 and 10.5.1 and 10.4.0, and 10.3.1 may allow an authenticated attacker to escalate their privilege to Root via sending a crafted request to a local listening port.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability (CVE-2025-54658) involves improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory (path traversal) in the Fortinet FortiDLP Agent's Outlookproxy plugin on macOS versions 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.5.1, and various 11.x versions including 11.0.1 through 11.5.1. An authenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted request to a local listening port, resulting in escalation of privilege to root. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating it requires local access with low attack complexity and leads to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. The vendor has issued an official fix to address this issue.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an authenticated user with local access to escalate privileges to root on affected FortiDLP macOS agents. This can lead to full system compromise, including unauthorized access, modification, and disruption of system operations. The high CVSS score reflects the critical impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Fortinet for this vulnerability. Users should apply the vendor-provided patch promptly to remediate the issue. Since this is not a cloud service, remediation requires updating the affected FortiDLP Agent versions on macOS endpoints. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
CVE-2025-54658: Escalation of privilege in Fortinet FortiDLP
Description
An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability [CWE-22] in Fortinet FortiDLP Agent's Outlookproxy plugin for MacOS 11.5.1 and 11.4.2 through 11.4.6 and 11.3.2 through 11.3.4 and 11.2.0 through 11.2.3 and 11.1.1 through 11.1.2 and 11.0.1 and 10.5.1 and 10.4.0, and 10.3.1 may allow an authenticated attacker to escalate their privilege to Root via sending a crafted request to a local listening port.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.2high
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability (CVE-2025-54658) involves improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory (path traversal) in the Fortinet FortiDLP Agent's Outlookproxy plugin on macOS versions 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.5.1, and various 11.x versions including 11.0.1 through 11.5.1. An authenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted request to a local listening port, resulting in escalation of privilege to root. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating it requires local access with low attack complexity and leads to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. The vendor has issued an official fix to address this issue.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an authenticated user with local access to escalate privileges to root on affected FortiDLP macOS agents. This can lead to full system compromise, including unauthorized access, modification, and disruption of system operations. The high CVSS score reflects the critical impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Fortinet for this vulnerability. Users should apply the vendor-provided patch promptly to remediate the issue. Since this is not a cloud service, remediation requires updating the affected FortiDLP Agent versions on macOS endpoints. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- fortinet
- Date Reserved
- 2025-07-28T09:23:38.062Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
Threat ID: 68f0fda89f8a5dbaead89175
Added to database: 10/16/2025, 14:14:00 UTC
Last enriched: 07/09/2026, 08:45:06 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC
Views: 307
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