CVE-2018-10381 Privilege escalation in n/a
A local attacker can escalate privileges to SYSTEM by exploiting the TunnelBearMaintenance 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-2018-10381?
CVE-2018-10381 is a critical vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
TunnelBear 3.2.0.6 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "TunnelBearMaintenance" service. This service establishes a NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "OpenVPNConnect" method accepts a server list 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 attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10381?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mcafee Tunnelbear.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10381?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10381 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-10381 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10381 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mh68-r8rp-2j3j.