{"id":"CVE-2019-15711","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-15711","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:42:21.531Z","title":"A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege via injecting specially crafted \"ExportLogs\" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process.","description":"A privilege escalation vulnerability in FortiClient for Linux 6.2.1 and below may allow an user with low privilege to run system commands under root privilege via injecting specially crafted \"ExportLogs\" type IPC client requests to the fctsched process.","published":"2020-02-06T16:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:20:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@fortinet.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["fortinet/forticlient"],"epss":{"score":0.00521,"percentile":0.44073,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.52%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@fortinet.com"},{"url":"https://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/forticlient_linux","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-19-238","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15711","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}