CVE-2025-65199 Windscribe for Linux 'changeMTU' local privilege escalation

What is CVE-2025-65199?

CVE-2025-65199 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App, published on 10 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A command injection vulnerability exists in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App that allows a local user who is a member of the windscribe group to execute arbitrary commands as root via the 'adapterName' parameter of the 'changeMTU' function. Fixed in Windscribe v2.18.3-alpha and v2.18.8.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65199?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Windscribe Windscribe.

How do I fix CVE-2025-65199?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-65199 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2025-65199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-65199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App

• CVE-2024-6141 Windscribe Directory Traversal Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability High 7.8
• CVE-2022-41141 Privilege escalation in Windscribe High 7.8
• CVE-2020-22809 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2020-27518 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-11479 Command injection in n/a High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-842w-c8vj-r24w.