CVE-2021-36183

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-36183
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-02 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-03 16:04:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fortinet Forticlient All All All All
Application Fortinet Forticlient All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PSIRT Advisories | FortiGuard CONFIRM fortiguard.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376020 FortiClient Windows Privilege escalation Vulnerability (FG-IR-20-079)
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