CVE-2018-10170
NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-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 attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-04-16
- Last modified
- 2024-09-17
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-018.md
