Vulnerability Details : CVE-2018-10170
NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-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 attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
Vulnerability category: Execute codeGain privilege
Products affected by CVE-2018-10170
- cpe:2.3:a:nordvpn:nordvpn:6.12.7.0:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-10170
0.61%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 67 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2018-10170
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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10.0
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HIGH | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
10.0
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10.0
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NIST | |
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9.8
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CRITICAL | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
3.9
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5.9
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NIST |
CWE ids for CVE-2018-10170
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The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors.Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
References for CVE-2018-10170
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https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-018.md
research/VS-2018-018.md at master · VerSprite/research · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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