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.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2018-2248 | 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
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Updated: 2024-09-17T00:26:03.490Z
Reserved: 2018-04-16T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2018-10170
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-16T21:29:00.513
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:56.570
Link: CVE-2018-10170
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