What is CVE-2018-18656?

CVE-2018-18656 is a high-severity vulnerability in Purevpn, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-18656?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-18656 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Purevpn

CVE-2018-18656

The PureVPN client before 6.1.0 for Windows stores Login Credentials (username and password) in cleartext. The location of such files is %PROGRAMDATA%\purevpn\config\login.conf. Additionally, all local users can read this file.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Purevpn
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Public proof-of-concept exploits

SpiderLabs/cve_

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18656?: CVE-2018-18656 is a high-severity vulnerability in Purevpn, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-18656?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-18656 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.