CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-16155

7.1 HIGH Published 2020-02-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-02-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• fortinet forticlient (<= 6.2.1)

References