CVE-2018-10170

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2018-10170

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2018-04-16T21:29:00

• Last Modified Date
• 2019-10-03T00:03:26

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• COMPLETE

• Integrity Impact
• COMPLETE

• Availability Impact
• COMPLETE

• Base Score
• 10

• Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 10

• Impact Score
• 10

• Version
• 3.0

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 9.8

• Base Severity
• CRITICAL

• Exploitability Score
• 3.9

• Impact Score
• 5.9