CVE-2019-16155

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-16155
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-07 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fortinet Forticlient All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple privilege escalations in FortiClient for Linux | Danish Cyber Defence MISC danishcyberdefence.dk Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Privilege escalation and DoS in FortiClient for Linux through local IPC socket | FortiGuard CONFIRM fortiguard.com Vendor Advisory
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