cve-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
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
psirt@fortinet.comhttps://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-274Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-23-274Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Fortinet FortiClientWindows Version: 7.2.0   ≤ 7.2.1
Version: 7.0.9
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