CVE-2019-17652

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

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

Summary

A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow a user with low privilege to cause FortiClient processes running under root priviledge crashes via sending specially crafted "StartAvCustomScan" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process due the argv data not been well sanitized.

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:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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