vulnerability

Fortinet FortiClient: CVE-2022-42470: Arbitrary file creation by unprivileged users

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 11, 2023
Added
Jul 15, 2025
Modified
Nov 10, 2025

Description

A relative path traversal [CWE-23] vulnerability in FortiClientWindows may allow a local low privileged attacker to perform arbitrary file creation on the device filesystem.

Solution

fortinet-forticlient-upgrade-latest
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