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GSD-2019-16155

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23

Details

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.

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CVE-2019-16155

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CVE-2019-16155

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CVE-2019-16155 (GCVE-0-2019-16155)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-07 14:47 – Updated: 2024-10-25 14:03

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Escalation of privilege

Assigner

fortinet

References

URL

Tags

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	https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Fortinet	Fortinet FortiClientLinux	Affected: FortiClientLinux 6.2.1 and below

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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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GSD-2019-16155

CVE-2019-16155 (GCVE-0-2019-16155)

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