CVE-2024-21753: fortinet forticlient_endpoint_management_server Path Traversal

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-21753 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Path Traversal vulnerability in fortinet forticlient_endpoint_management_server. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 10-09-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 10-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in Fortinet FortiClientEMS versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.4, 7.0.0 through 7.0.13, 6.4.0 through 6.4.9, 6.2.0 through 6.2.9, 6.0.0 through 6.0.8, 1.2.1 through 1.2.5 allows attacker to perform a denial of service, read or write a limited number of files via specially crafted HTTP requests

• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.