CVE-2018-15490 | BDVDB-2026-111174 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://medium.com/%40Wflki/https-medium-com-wflki-cve-2018-15490-expressvpn-local-privilege-escalation-d22c86fecc47

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12019-01-02Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.