CVE-2017-7344

published 2017-12-14

CVE-2017-7344: A privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClient Windows 5.4.3 and earlier as well as 5.6.0 allows attacker to gain privilege via exploiting the Windows…

Priority P3 43 high 8.1 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC H PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

A privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClient Windows 5.4.3 and earlier as well as 5.6.0 allows attacker to gain privilege via exploiting the Windows "security alert" dialog thereby popping up when the "VPN before logon" feature is enabled and an untrusted certificate chain.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	forticlient	<= 5.4.3	—
fortinet	forticlient	—	—
fortinet	forticlient	—	—
fortinet	fortinet	—	—
fortinet_inc	forticlientwindows	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.6 HIGH AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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