CVE-2019-6145: Forcepoint VPN Client

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows versions lower than 6.6.1 have an unquoted search path vulnerability. This enables local privilege escalation to SYSTEM user. By default, only local administrators can write executables to the vulnerable directories. Forcepoint thanks Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs for finding this vulnerability and for reporting it to us.

Affected products

• Forcepoint VPN Client: before 6.6.1 (fixed in 6.6.1)

Published 2019-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.