CVE-2017-7344

Severity

76%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

165%

A privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClient Windows 5.4.3 and earlier as well as 5.6.0 allows attacker to gain privilege via exploiting the Windows "security alert" dialog thereby popping up when the "VPN before logon" feature is enabled and an untrusted certificate chain.

A privilege escalation in Fortinet FortiClient Windows 5.4.3 and earlier as well as 5.6.0 allows attacker to gain privilege via exploiting the Windows "security alert" dialog thereby popping up when the "VPN before logon" feature is enabled and an untrusted certificate chain.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-12-14 18:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Fortinet FortiClient 5.6.0 for Windows

5.6.0
windows

References

102176

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-17-070

Vendor Advisory

https://securite.intrinsec.com/2017/12/22/cve-2017-7344-fortinet-forticlient-windows-privilege-escalation-at-logon/

Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

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