🛡️ CVE-2026-59836 — forticlientems

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

A improper certificate validation vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClientEMS 7.4.3 through 7.4.5, FortiClientEMS 7.4.0 through 7.4.1, FortiClientEMS 7.2 all versions may allow attacker to information disclosure via <insert attack vector here>

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-59836 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2026-59836 is recorded against 1 package.

  • forticlientems (from 7.4.3 up to 7.4.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 July 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

fortiguard.fortinet.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
forticlientems 7.4.3 7.4.6

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