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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-04-16T21:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:19:08.447Z

Reserved: 2018-04-16T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2018-10169

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-04-16T21:29:00.467

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2018-10169

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