CVE-2021-36183

State: Published
Severity: 7.4 High
Published: Nov 2, 2021
Updated: Oct 25, 2024
Reserved: Jul 6, 2021

Description

An improper authorization vulnerability [CWE-285] in FortiClient for Windows versions 7.0.1 and below and 6.4.2 and below may allow a local unprivileged attacker to escalate their privileges to SYSTEM via the named pipe responsible for Forticlient updates.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:X/RC:X	fortinet

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Fortinet FortiClientWindowsFortinet	FortiClientWindows 7.0.1, 7.0.0, 6.4.2, 6.4.1, 6.4.0Affected

References

https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-20-079

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