CVE-2019-16155

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…

published February 7, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00443 · 37.5th percentile
Published
2020-02-07T14:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 FEB 14:47Z
    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…
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