CVE-2019-15711

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in fortinet forticlient. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2020-02-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

fortinet:forticlient

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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