CVE-2019-16155

7.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Fortinet
Status
Fortinet Forticlientlinux
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 February 2020

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Fortinet FortiClientLinux FortiClientLinux 6.2.1 and below

References

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238
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https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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