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GHSA-WRHM-J3M8-M326

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:08 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:08

Details

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.

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CVE-2019-16155 (GCVE-0-2019-16155)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-07 14:47 – Updated: 2024-10-25 14:03

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Escalation of privilege

Assigner

fortinet

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Fortinet	Fortinet FortiClientLinux	Affected: FortiClientLinux 6.2.1 and below

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GHSA-WRHM-J3M8-M326

CVE-2019-16155 (GCVE-0-2019-16155)

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