CVE-2019-16155
CVE-2019-16155
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
07 Feb 2020Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
Affected products
Fortinet · Fortinet FortiClientLinuxWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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