CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-41031
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-07-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
A relative path traversal vulnerability [CWE-23] in FortiClient for Windows versions 7.0.2 and prior, 6.4.6 and prior and 6.2.9 and below may allow a local unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to SYSTEM via the named pipe responsible for FortiESNAC service.
Affected configurations
• fortinet forticlient (>= 6.2.0 <= 6.2.9)
• fortinet forticlient (>= 6.4.0 <= 6.4.6)
• fortinet forticlient (>= 7.0.0 <= 7.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-21-190 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-21-190 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory