How severe is CVE-2021-44168?

CVE-2021-44168 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 3.3 (LOW). EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2021-44168: Fortinet FortiOS Arbitrary File Download

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Fortinet FortiOS Arbitrary File Download is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-12-10

Remediation due

2021-12-24

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44168

Description

A download of code without integrity check vulnerability in the "execute restore src-vis" command of FortiOS before 7.0.3 may allow a local authenticated attacker to download arbitrary files on the device via specially crafted update packages.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA3.3 LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:U/RC:C

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impactpartial

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2021-44168 to the KEV catalog 25 days before its CVE record was published.
It is one of 31 Fortinet entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 4 added in 2021.
Its current EPSS score (0.9%) is higher than that of 3% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Fortinet	Fortinet Fortinet FortiOS	FortiOS before 7.0.3

References

1 Links

Other references

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-201

Record Details

Published

2022-01-04

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

fortinet

Credited to

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