Description
An issue was discovered in ExpressVPN on Windows. The Xvpnd.exe process (which runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges) listens on TCP port 2015, which is used as an RPC interface for communication with the client side of the ExpressVPN application. A JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP is used for communication. The JSON-RPC XVPN.GetPreference and XVPN.SetPreference methods are vulnerable to path traversal, and allow reading and writing files on the file system on behalf of the service.
Published: 2019-01-02
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-7368 An issue was discovered in ExpressVPN on Windows. The Xvpnd.exe process (which runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges) listens on TCP port 2015, which is used as an RPC interface for communication with the client side of the ExpressVPN application. A JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP is used for communication. The JSON-RPC XVPN.GetPreference and XVPN.SetPreference methods are vulnerable to path traversal, and allow reading and writing files on the file system on behalf of the service.
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Expressvpn Expressvpn
Microsoft Windows
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:54:03.767Z

Reserved: 2018-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-15490

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-01-02T18:29:00.653

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:50:55.377

Link: CVE-2018-15490

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