CVE-2018-11479

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-11479
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-25 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-05 21:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe VPN component in Windscribe 1.81 uses the OpenVPN client for connections. Also, it creates a WindScribeService.exe system process that establishes a \\.\pipe\WindscribeService named pipe endpoint that allows the Windscribe VPN process to connect and execute an OpenVPN process or other processes (like taskkill, etc.). There is no validation of the program name before constructing the lpCommandLine argument for a CreateProcess call. An attacker can run any malicious process with SYSTEM privileges through this named pipe.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Windscribe Windscribe 1.81 All All All
Application Windscribe Windscribe 1.81 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Windscribe WindscribeService Named Pipe Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
vmcs: WindScribe VPN Privilege Escalation MISC sqlulz.blogspot.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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