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CVE-2019-16152

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

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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