CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8493

Published: Jun 26, 2017 | Modified: Jan 17, 2018

CVSS 3.x

8.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

9 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8493
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

In FortiClientWindows 5.4.1 and 5.4.2, an attacker may escalate privilege via a FortiClientNamedPipe vulnerability.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Forticlient	Fortinet	5.4.1 (including)	5.4.1 (including)
Forticlient	Fortinet	5.4.2 (including)	5.4.2 (including)

References

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