CVE-2018-10204 | BDVDB-2026-99708 Detail

Description#

PureVPN 6.0.1 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability in its "sevpnclient" service. When configured to use the OpenVPN protocol, the "sevpnclient" service executes "openvpn.exe" using the OpenVPN config file located at %PROGRAMDATA%\purevpn\config\config.ovpn. This file allows "Write" permissions to users in the "Everyone" group. An authenticated attacker may modify this file to 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 account.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-021.md

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-04-18Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-17Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.