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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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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T09:54:03.767Z
Reserved: 2018-08-17T00:00:00
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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