CVE-2018-4008

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2019-04-15

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

• Shimo Vpn (Shimovpn)

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0677