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Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost

ID: b2d98d9b-9bfe-5123-9b6a-881a4f2adc94

STIX ID: report--b2d98d9b-9bfe-5123-9b6a-881a4f2adc94

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-11-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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A high-severity FortiClient VPN vulnerability (CVE-2024-47574, CVSS 7.8) and a related registry-privilege flaw (CVE-2024-50564) were disclosed and patched in FortiClient 7.4.1 and other fixed releases; exploitation can lead to local privilege escalation, code execution (via process hollowing), deletion of logs, and modification of HKLM registry values, but neither issue has been observed exploited in the wild.

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