Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows
CVE-2018-10170 · HIGH Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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