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Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows versions lower than 6.6...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 4, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 20, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Apr 4, 2024

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(37th percentile)

Weaknesses

Unquoted Search Path or Element

The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2019-6145

GHSA ID

GHSA-8gxf-72xg-w67c

Source code

No known source code

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