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CVE-2018-10169

 

Severity Score

9.8
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

ProtonVPN 1.3.3 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "ProtonVPN Service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a class instance argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.

ProtonVPN 1.3.3 para Windows sufre de una vulnerabilidad de escalado de privilegios SYSTEM a través del servicio "ProtonVPN Service". Este servicio establece un endpoint NetNamedPipe que permite que aplicaciones instaladas de forma arbitraria se conecten y llamen a métodos expuestos de forma pública. El método "Connect" acepta un argumento de instancia de clase que proporciona control al atacante de la línea de comandos de OpenVPN. Un atacante puede especificar un plugin de biblioteca dinámica que debería ejecutarse para cada nueva conexión de VPN. Este plugin ejecutará código en el contexto del usuario SYSTEM.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2018-04-16 CVE Reserved
  • 2018-04-16 CVE Published
  • 2024-09-16 CVE Updated
  • 2024-09-17 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CAPEC
References (1)
URL Tag Source
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-017.md Third Party Advisory
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Protonmail
Search vendor "Protonmail"
 Protonvpn
Search vendor "Protonmail" for product "Protonvpn"
 1.3.3
Search vendor "Protonmail" for product "Protonvpn" and version "1.3.3"
windows
Affected