An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the writeConfig functionality. A non-root user is able to write a file anywhere on the system. 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 exploit it successfully.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-15792 An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the writeConfig functionality. A non-root user is able to write a file anywhere on the system. 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 exploit it successfully.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T04:57:24.736Z

Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-4006

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-17T15:29:00.563

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:06:28.960

Link: CVE-2018-4006

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