Vulnerability in Nordvpn

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.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.026 (85.0th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2018-10170: held from 0.027 to 0.026.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.026 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10170?
CVE-2018-10170 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nordvpn, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-04-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-10170?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.