Description
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.
Published: 2017-12-14
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16371 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.
History

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Fortinet Forticlient
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fortinet

Published:

Updated: 2024-10-25T14:32:58.833Z

Reserved: 2017-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7344

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Updated: 2024-08-05T15:56:36.460Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-14T18:29:00.210

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-7344

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No data.

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Weaknesses