{"id":"CVE-2019-16152","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-16152","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:27:30.748Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2020-02-06T16:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:21:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@fortinet.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["fortinet/forticlient"],"epss":{"score":0.01381,"percentile":0.71989,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"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-2019-16152","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."}