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Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score: 9.8), allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying system. "An improper

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Source category
Research & news
Report title
Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes
First reported
Oct 02, 2026 05:49 UTC
Last reported
Oct 02, 2026 05:49 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC
Record ID
6b02d3cc7d8e0db39856531adbac7e21edb9cc2a4015927e7f1016e6a988661d

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Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Oct 02, 2026 05:49 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC

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