CVE-2019-15711: A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege…

PriorityP341high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.52%

40.6th percentile

A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege via injecting specially crafted "ExportLogs" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	forticlient	<= 6.2.1	—
fortinet	forticlient	—	—
fortinet	fortinet_forticlientlinux	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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