MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-91839 (CVSS 7.8)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 23/100
A flaw was found in NetworkManager-fortisslvpn, the FortiSSLVPN plugin for NetworkManager. The nm-fortisslvpn-service improperly handles carriage-return/line-feed (CR/LF) characters in VPN connection profile credentials. A local unprivileged user can exploit this by crafting a malicious VPN profile to inject additional configuration directives. This can lead to arbitrary code execution with root privileges when the crafted VPN connection is activated.
Technical details
CVSS
7.8
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
Evidence and sources
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