CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-6145
Medium (6.7) in forcepoint vpn client. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows versions lower than 6.6.1 have an unquoted search path vulnerability. This enables local privilege escalation to SYSTEM user. By default, only local administrators can write executables to the vulnerable directories. Forcepoint thanks Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs for finding this vulnerability and for reporting it to us.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-428
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- forcepoint:vpn_client
References
- https://help.forcepoint.com/security/CVE/CVE-2019-6145.html
- https://safebreach.com/Post/Forcepoint-VPN-Client-for-Windows-Unquoted-Search-Path-and-Potential-Abuses-CVE-2019-6145
- https://help.forcepoint.com/security/CVE/CVE-2019-6145.html
- https://safebreach.com/Post/Forcepoint-VPN-Client-for-Windows-Unquoted-Search-Path-and-Potential-Abuses-CVE-2019-6145