CVE-2019-16155
Severity
7.1HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 68.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Fortinet▶
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