CVE-2021-36183

published 2021-11-02

CVE-2021-36183: An improper authorization vulnerability [CWE-285] in FortiClient for Windows versions 7.0.1 and below and 6.4.2 and below may allow a local unprivileged…

Priority P3 39 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

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

An improper authorization vulnerability [CWE-285] in FortiClient for Windows versions 7.0.1 and below and 6.4.2 and below may allow a local unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to SYSTEM via the named pipe responsible for Forticlient updates.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
fortinet	forticlient	—	—
fortinet	forticlient	6.4.0 – 6.4.2	—
fortinet	forticlient	7.0.0 – 7.0.1	—
fortinet	fortinet_forticlientwindows	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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