CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17652
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow a user with low privilege to cause FortiClient processes running under root priviledge crashes via sending specially crafted "StartAvCustomScan" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process due the argv data not been well sanitized.
Affected configurations
• fortinet forticlient (<= 6.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238 Vendor Advisory
- https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238 Vendor Advisory