CVE-2019-16152

MEDIUM

FortiClient for Linux < 6.2.1 - Denial of Service via Crafted IPC Client Requests

Title source: llm

Description

A Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to cause FortiClient processes running under root privilege crashes via sending specially crafted IPC client requests to the fctsched process due the nanomsg not been correctly validated.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0050

EPSS Percentile 66.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (1)

fortinet/forticlient < 6.2.1

Published Feb 06, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026