FortiGate CVE-2025-59718 Exploitation: Incident Response Findings

Rapid7’s IR team investigated an incident involving the exploitation of CVE-2025-59718, a vulnerability in FortiGate firewalls that allowed attackers to bypass authentication and gain initial access. This highlights the importance of monitoring network edge devices for suspicious activities such as configuration downloads and account creations from external IPs. Defenders should implement centralized syslog monitoring to enhance visibility into these critical systems. Rapid7 has developed specific detections for their customers to identify exploitation attempts early.

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