CVE-2019-16155

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.1

Exploit probability—

Product

Fortinet Forticlient

PublishedFeb 7, 2020

First seenFeb 7, 2020

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
fortinet forticlient	v ≤ 6.2.1	—

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