CVE-2018-10169 Privilege escalation in n/a
A local attacker can escalate privileges to SYSTEM by exploiting an insecure named pipe in the ProtonVPN service to load a malicious OpenVPN plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-10169?
CVE-2018-10169 is a critical vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
ProtonVPN 1.3.3 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "ProtonVPN Service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a class instance argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10169?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Protonmail Protonvpn.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10169?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10169 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-10169 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10169 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-ph8h-hf9v-jm2r.