CVE-2019-16152

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.4%

Medium (6.5) in fortinet forticlient. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
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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