CVE-2019-15711

A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege via injecting specially crafted "ExportLogs" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:fortinet:forticlient:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2020-02-06 16:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:13

NVD link : CVE-2019-15711

Mitre link : CVE-2019-15711

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-15711

JSON object : View

Products Affected

fortinet

forticlient

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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