CVE-2018-10169

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 10.0 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

10.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-017.md	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-017.md	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:protonmail:protonvpn:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2018-04-16 21:29

Updated : 2024-11-21 03:40

NVD link : CVE-2018-10169

Mitre link : CVE-2018-10169

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-10169

JSON object : View

Products Affected

protonmail

protonvpn

CWE

CWE-732

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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