CVE-2018-10170

Published Apr 16, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 2.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-2248 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 12:26 AM
Reserved
Apr 16, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 16, 2018, 9:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:33 AM