CVE-2019-16155 — Fortinet / Fortinet FortiClientLinux

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Fortinet / Fortinet FortiClientLinux	affected FortiClientLinux 6.2.1 and below

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

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

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

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