CVE-2018-4008

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command

Critical · published April 15, 2019

CVSS v3.0
9.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. 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 successfully exploit this bug.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00422 · 35.4th percentile
Published
2019-04-15T19:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 19:46Z
    An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command
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