An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug.
Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2018-15794 | An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T04:57:24.578Z
Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-4008
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Status : Modified
Published: 2019-04-15T20:29:00.470
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:06:29.213
Link: CVE-2018-4008
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