Severity
7.1HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 68.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 7
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow a user with low privilege to overwrite system files as root with arbitrary content through system backup file via specially crafted "BackupConfig" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process. Further more, FortiClient for Linux 6.2.2 and below allow low privilege user write the system backup file under root privilege through GUI thus can cause root system file overwrite.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5fortinet/fortinet_forticlientlinuxFortiClientLinux 6.2.1 and below

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wrhm-j3m8-m326: A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 62022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2019-16155: A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 62020-02-07

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Fortinet
A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to ru...2020-02-06
CVE-2019-16155 (HIGH CVSS 7.1) | A privilege escalation vulnerabilit | cvebase.io