CVE-2019-16152 Denial of service in Fortinet FortiClientLinux
A low-privilege user can crash root-privileged FortiClient processes on Linux by sending malformed IPC requests, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-16152?
CVE-2019-16152 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fortinet Forticlient, published on 6 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16152?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fortinet Forticlient.
How do I fix CVE-2019-16152?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-16152 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-16152 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16152 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fortinet Forticlient
- CVE-2019-17658 Privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClientWindows
- CVE-2023-45590 Code injection in FortiClientLinux
- CVE-2017-14184 Information disclosure in FortiClient SSLVPN Client for Linux
- CVE-2016-8493 Privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClient
- CVE-2020-15934 Privilege escalation in FortiClientLinux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w9pw-cfwx-mjq5.