CVE-2020-5180

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-5180
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-14 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-08 17:22:00 UTC
DescriptionViscosity 1.8.2 on Windows and macOS allows an unprivileged user to set a subset of OpenVPN parameters, which can be used to load a malicious library into the memory of the OpenVPN process, leading to limited local privilege escalation. (When a VPN connection is initiated using a TLS/SSL client profile, the privileges are dropped, and the library will be loaded, resulting in arbitrary code execution as a user with limited privileges. This greatly reduces the impact of the vulnerability.)

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos - All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os - All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Sparklabs Viscosity 1.8.2 All All All
Application Sparklabs Viscosity 1.8.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Viscosity For Mac & Windows: Version 1.8.4 - SparkLabs CONFIRM www.sparklabs.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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