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CVE-2019-15711

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege via injecting specially crafted "ExportLogs" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiClientWindows: through 6.2.1

References

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

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