
In an unsettling development for cybersecurity experts and users alike, Fortinet recently addressed a disturbing security breach that affected its FortiGate devices. Attackers found a way to maintain read-only access to these devices, even after various vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2023-27997, and CVE-2024-21762, were patched. By exploiting a symbolic link (symlink) created between the user file system and the root