CVE-2023-41840 (GCVE-0-2023-41840)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-14 18:04
Modified
2024-10-22 20:54
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P
CWE
  • CWE-426 - Escalation of privilege
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Fortinet FortiClientWindows Version: 7.2.0   ≤ 7.2.1
Version: 7.0.9
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