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CVE-2023-41840 (GCVE-0-2023-41840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-14 18:04 – Updated: 2025-12-16 18:23
VLAI
Summary
A untrusted search path vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClientWindows 7.0.9 allows an attacker to perform a DLL Hijack attack via a malicious OpenSSL engine library in the search path.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:X
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2023-11-16 13:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-426 - Escalation of privilege
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Fortinet FortiClientWindows Affected: 7.2.0 , ≤ 7.2.1 (semver)
Affected: 7.0.9
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