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CVE-2019-16152

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: February 6, 2020 at 03:27 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorForticlient

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20

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