VDB-116272 · CVE-2018-10169 · Qualys 370909

ProtonVPN up to 1.3.3 on Windows Service access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in ProtonVPN up to 1.3.3 on Windows. This affects an unknown part of the component Service. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2018-10169. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in ProtonVPN up to 1.3.3 on Windows. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ProtonVPN 1.3.3 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "ProtonVPN 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. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.

The bug was discovered 04/17/2018. The weakness was disclosed 04/16/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-10169 since 04/16/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. A single authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370909 (ProtonVPN Privilege Escalation Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-10169 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-10169
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-116272

Entryinfo

Created: 04/17/2018 09:50
Updated: 01/25/2020 14:59
Changes: 04/17/2018 09:50 (57), 01/25/2020 14:59 (1)
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