CVE-2019-16152: Fortinet FortiClient

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fortinet FortiClient: up to and including 6.2.1

Published 2020-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.