A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow a user with low privilege to overwrite system files as root with arbitrary content through system backup file via specially crafted "BackupConfig" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process. Further more, FortiClient for Linux 6.2.2 and below allow low privilege user write the system backup file under root privilege through GUI thus can cause root system file overwrite.

Related CVEs

CVE-2019-16155

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-wrhm-j3m8-m326

Published

May 24, 2022 5:08 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:08 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 29, 2025 6:31 AM

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