Fortinet admins are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed FortiGate authentication bypass (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-admins-report-patched-fortigate-firewalls-getting-hacked/
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