CVE-2018-10647

HIGH

SaferVPN 4.2.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

SaferVPN 4.2.5 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability in its "SaferVPN.Service" service. The "SaferVPN.Service" service executes "openvpn.exe" using OpenVPN config files located within the current user's %LOCALAPPDATA%\SaferVPN\OvpnConfig directory. An authenticated attacker may modify these configuration files to 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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 17.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
safervpn/safervpn 4.2.5
Published May 02, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026